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Your house’s foundation is responsible for stabilizing the entire structure. A job this critical means your foundation should be thoroughly checked regularly to make sure you aren’t risking costly damage to your home.

If you’re behind on checking your home’s foundation, you aren’t alone. Many homeowners let this important task slip through the cracks. A house’s foundations can be confusing and intimidating to many, making it difficult to locate the precise source of an issue.

Luckily, Stevensville residents can rely on Bluebird Foundation Repair & Waterproofing to handle their foundation issues. Let’s go over what foundation repair means and why it’s so important to every home.

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Signs of Damaged Foundation

Foundation issues can cover many different areas of your home, so you should not expect problems to be contained to one spot. Here are some signs to look for:

  • Cracks in Drywall – If your foundation shifts almost relentlessly, you can expect to find cracks in your drywall. These cracks tend to grow wider and more severe with time.
  • Cracks in Floor – No matter how durable your floors may seem, cracks can occur if your home is experiencing foundation troubles.
  • Cracks in Corners – If you notice gaps in your vinyl siding, you should take notice and prepare to tackle the issue head-on. Gaps usually foreshadow greater trouble ahead, including serious cracks.
  • Cracks in Brickwork – You do not want to brush off cracks in your brickwork, as they may be a warning that your foundation needs help.
  • Leaning Chimney – A leaning chimney is more than just a strange feature; it is a sign of foundational problems. If you think your chimney looks strange, you should definitely reach out to a foundation professional.

Why Should I Repair My Foundation?

The trouble with foundation issues is that they very rarely remain localized to one area. If you spot signs of shaky foundation in one area of your home, chances are high that these issues are elsewhere as well.

To make matters even worse, foundation damage tends to worsen with time. That’s because your home is constantly facing the elements and the temperamental shifting soil beneath it. Therefore, when you spot trouble, you should get it taken care of promptly.

What Bluebird Offers

If you are ready to address foundation issues with your Stevensville home, we are ready to help. We are proudly RamJack certified, which means that we are very selective about the materials we use for residential projects.

We also understand that every home is different and so we come to every project ready to adjust accordingly. For example, if we are working with a heavy structure, we can take out our tools for deep-driven steel piercing systems, which involve heavy-duty piles and piers. Helical piering systems are ideal for more lightweight homes. If the problem extends to your beams and pillars, we can take out the carbon fiber and get to work. Unstable slabs will call for slab brackets.

Call Bluebird Today

Stevensville homeowners can count on Bluebird Foundation Repair & Waterproofing to restore their foundation to safety and stability. Give us a call today, and we will come out and give you a quote! Outside of foundation repair, we also offer basement waterproofing and crawlspace waterproofing and seawall repair throughout Stevensville.

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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