Foundation Repair | Livonia, MI

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Your home’s foundation keeps your entire house stable for decades at a time—at least, it should if your foundation is healthy. That is why it is so vital to monitor it regularly by checking for foundation damage around your home.

Some homes may have foundation issues for years without anyone ever noticing. As a result, it is tough for most homeowners to see the problem and act accordingly.

Bluebird Foundation Repair & Waterproofing can handle these issues. Let’s go over what foundation repair entails and what we can offer to fix those problems:

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Signs of Damaged Foundation

Once you know what to look for, finding signs of foundation damage is not too tricky. The most common sign of damage is cracks anywhere in your foundation, including:

  • Drywall (results from shifting foundation and moving walls)
  • Floors (any material)
  • Brickwork (often also indicates that there is something going on beneath the drywall)
  • Corners (marked by wide gaps in vinyl sidings and other materials)

If you note cracks in any of the areas mentioned above, do not wait. Call a professional as soon as possible. Today, cracks may seem like a minor inconvenience. Eventually, however, they will become so much more than that.

Apart from the issues mentioned above, you may also notice that your chimney is leaning if your home has any structural damage. Do not ignore this symptom either.

Why Should I Repair My Foundation?

We can’t stress this enough: foundation issues will not heal themselves. As long as the ground beneath your home keeps shifting and the Michigan weather takes its toll, the problem will only get worse if no one intervenes. Not only will postponing repair lead to more extensive damage, it will also be much more expensive to fix.

What’s more, you want to keep these things in mind for the future, should you ever decide to move on and sell your home. Potential buyers will look critically at your home’s foundation to ensure that it is safe and will not cause them any trouble in the future.

What Bluebird Offers

If you have read the above and have come to the realization that your home is indeed suffering from foundation issues, do not worry. Hope is still alive, especially with Bluebird at your side.

We have been Ram Jack certified, which guarantees that we use materials that have been proven again and again not only to be excellent but also to be safe for your entire family. You do not have to worry about taking a chance on something that has not yet been tried.

We employ the following systems and materials, depending on the build of your home and what the situation calls for:

  • Helical piering systems (lightweight structures)
  • Deep-driven steel piercing systems (heavy structures)
  • Heavy-duty piles and piers
  • Carbon fiber (for walls and beams with notable damage)
  • Slab brackets (for slabs that have fallen out of place)

Call Bluebird Today

Ready to see what stellar foundation repair looks like? Give us a call today, and we will come give you your quote. Outside of foundation repair, we also offer basement waterproofing and crawlspace waterproofing throughout Livonia.

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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