Repair My Foundation-A homeowner’s look at the options

SABER is company that offers a lot of services having to do with concrete repair and leveling including residential foundations. Their website describes two of the more common types of steel piers on the market today: resistance and helical piers.
“There are generally two types of steel piers used for underpinning foundations. Resistance and helical. Both [...]

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Another thing Tom the Contractor suggested for reversing the loss of moisture under my slab foundation after the root barriers were installed was to rehydrate the soil. That’s a fancy word for squirting water into the dirt under the house.

One of his crew went all around the foundation with machine similar to a power washer [...]

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