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You want a safe, comfortable home to call your own. While you can make your home more comfortable with new couches or a crackling fireplace, there’s one element that you should never overlook if you want to ensure your family’s safety: a sturdy foundation.

Foundation issues are common but can be very difficult to find to the untrained eye. At Bluebird Foundation Repair & Waterproofing, we are happy to help Lapeer residents discover any issues and fix them immediately. Below, we will cover how we handle foundation repair and what you can expect.

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Signs of Damaged Foundation

The symptoms of a damaged foundation can show up just about anywhere, including your floors, walls, pillars, and chimney. Here are some common issues to always be aware of:

  • Cracks in Drywall – Even though many people overlook drywall cracks, they can indicate unspeakable damage, which usually occurs rapidly, often due to the shifting of the foundation.
    Cracks in Floor – It doesn’t matter if you have hard concrete floors or shiny vinyl floors. When cracks appear, you need to take action, as that may be a sign of a foundation in need of help.
  • Cracks in Brickwork – Cracks in brickwork may mean that there is severe, ongoing structural damage.
  • Cracks in Corners – Vinyl sidings may look nice, but they can be easily damaged by shifting the foundation. If you notice that your sidings look strange or have gaps in them, you should act quickly.
    Leaning Chimney – A chimney should never appear to be leaning. If yours is, your foundation may be in danger.

Why Should I Repair My Foundation?

Foundational issues can get very serious very quickly. One day, it may be just strange-looking walls; the next, you may notice entire rooms closing in on themselves. Keep in mind that foundational damage adds up with time. Small issues may seem harmless, but they can quickly grow out of control if you do not monitor them.

What’s more, if you want to sell your home now or in the future, you will want to address any foundational issues now. When people are looking for a new place to call home, they want to make sure that it is safe structurally speaking.

What Bluebird Offers

No foundation issue is too difficult for us.

We take pride in our RamJack certified status, which means that the products we use are top-tier. They have been verified safe for any residential setting.

We can also work with just about any type of structure. If your home is more lightweight in design, we will use a helical piering system. If it is a heavier structure, we have a deep-driven steel piercing system that we can rely on.

Finally, if your slabs seem to be falling out of place, no worries. We have brackets to put them back in order.

Call Bluebird Today

Feeling lost about the foundation damage to your Lapeer home? Need someone to take a look? Give us a call today! At Bluebird, we have what it takes to restore a foundation to its former glory. Outside of foundation repair, we also offer basement waterproofing and crawlspace waterproofing throughout Lapeer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Foundation repair can include wall stabilization with wall braces and carbon fiber straps, installing a wall patch for a wall crack with water intrusion, and stabilizing a settling foundation with helical piers. Sometimes the process is also called house leveling or foundation leveling.

Our approach depends on the type of crack and the condition of the wall. For vertical cracks with water intrusion, we implement a wall patch. This involves a PVC sheet riveted to the wall.

Settling foundation costs start from $5,000 and can go up to $50,000 or more as it depends on the type of foundation problem and the size of the home.

Each crack is unique. Our team does our best to identify the type of crack and the durability of the wall. More often than not, we do a wall patch. These patches are a piece of PVC sheet riveted to the wall for vertical cracks with water intrusion.

We can stabilize a settling foundation using helical piers. We always attempt to lift the home back to its original position, but this cannot be guaranteed in every situation due to the condition of the footer or repairs that may have been made to the home. Please note that we cannot lift a home so that additional blocks can be added to make the basement or crawlspace taller.

It depends on the reason for the crack. Some cracks can be left alone (shrink crack with no water intrusion). A crack can be a symptom of many things such as shrinkage for a poured basement wall, a bowing wall, or a settling foundation. We need to evaluate other things to determine the type of crack and the correct solution.

Some of the signs of foundation problems include:

  • Cracks in the foundation
  • Cracks in drywall
  • Doors and windows sticking
  • Home being pulled away from a
  • Deck or new addition

Tree roots aren’t always the cause of foundation, but it is a possibility. Tree roots can grow below the foundation and can cause uneven floors throughout your property.

You may feel a slight slope when walking, if you drop something it may roll to a certain area. Your cake may bake unevenly if the floor below the oven is sloping (this has happened to me).

Flooding can wash out the soil below your footer or cause water intrusion into your basement or crawlspace. Both of these incidents damage the foundation of your home.

Issues with your foundation can come in the form of water intrusions or cracks in the walls or floors.

One of the biggest issues we see with a post and beam foundation is sagging floors and walls. This is especially true if there is a load-bearing wall.

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