Importance of Home Foundation Stabilization

Stabilizing your home’s foundation is essentially the process of reinforcing your foundation to prevent movement. The importance of foundation stabilization is to make sure that the structure of your home lasts for a very long time without major shifting or settling. Foundation movement can lead to a series of concerns including sinking foundations or even your entire home collapsing. Catching foundation movement early on is the key so watch for signs such as cracks in the foundation and walls, doors/windows not closing properly or gaps between the wall and flooring.

Foundation problems can be daunting and a bit terrifying. What most people don’t know is that many foundation concerns can be solved with a simple, permanent solution. There are several ways to stabilize a home’s foundation. The first step is determining the cause of any movement followed by the best possible repair solution. Some of the more commonly used foundation stabilization products are briefly listed below:

-Interior Slab Brackets – more commonly used to lift large thin slabs of concrete.

-Injection Piers – available in a wide variety of designs and sizes, these piers are used to repair foundations that have settled due to weak underlying soil or sinkhole activity.

-Slab, Push and Helical Piers – all three of these piers are made to be driven deep into the earth to reside on a more stable soil. These piers can be installed year-round, are warranted for 25 years and provides opportunity to attempt to lift the foundation to its original position.

-Wall Repair System – used for buckled, bowing or tilting walls to stabilize the wall and provide the potential to straighten walls over a period of time.  The wall repair system requires no outside excavation and can be tightened for improvement of the wall over time.

-Wall and Channel Anchors – Both types of wall anchors provide stabilization to your foundation walls without the added cost and disruption of total foundation replacement. These anchors can be installed year-round, are warranted for 25 years and most jobs are completed in one day.

-Residential  Shotcrete – used when foundation walls have deteriorated or have started to cave in. Shotcrete is a fiber-reinforced mortar mixture that is pumped through a hose and is sprayed against a wall or other surface.

-Crawl Space Support Posts – The SmartJack System (aka Crawl Space Support Posts) provide a solid support for sagging and undersized beams thus restoring the stability and straightness to the sagging floor joists in a crawl space. These jacks can support up to 60,000lbs and are made from galvanized steel for maximum corrosion resistance.

The purpose of a foundation is to distribute the weight of the structure onto the soil in which it sits on. If the foundation is weakened, the entire structure becomes unstable and puts all those inside at risk. Foundation stabilization is of the utmost importance in order to provide a safe and solid structure.  The sooner you have your foundation stabilized the better and it may save you from a larger expense down the road. Call Redeemers Group at 1-901-458-3424 to evaluate the issues that you are having.