Our foundation repairs are warranted and are permanent. This is a vital solution to your home foundation problems. Concrete Repairman LLC is a licensed foundation repair company that can fix and repair any foundation, including Stem Walls, Monolithic post tension foundations, and commercial and residential home foundation repairs in Mesa, Arizona. Call foundation expert James Belville for your foundation inspection.

Foundation Settlement

Most foundation issues can be attributed to soil moisture content. Because our foundation footing is so shallow, the soils holding up our foundation’s vertical mass weight are being compromised. The moisture in the soil from roof rainwater, soil types, and negative dirt grading allows the moisture to hold and consolidate next to the vertical foundation walls. This allows deep penetration to the depth of the soils holding up the structure. This will cause the foundation wall to sink downward, causing vertical breaks in the foundation walls. Then, there are cracks in the ceiling drywall, doors not closing, and roof leaks.

In Mesa, Arizona, in our desert climate, the bottom of the footings only needs to go down to “UN-disturbed soil.” According to the architectural footing detail plans statement, these types of foundations are poured on sub-strights not compacted to 85% or higher compaction rates to hold the vertical pressures applied downward by gravity to the soils. This is the cause of most foundation settlement problems and foundation heave, resulting in the interior floor heaving upwards, which is not expansive soil in AZ.

When a foundation repair company says, “Your home was built on farmland, or Your home was built on expansive soils or clay.” They do not know the actual cause and will ALWAYS give you these excuses for the problem when they don’t know.

Oxidization of Interior Reinforcement Bar (horizontal cracks in foundation walls)

The last thing that the contractors do to your home is paint. The dirt grade is next to the foundation walls, and the foundation wall is not painted down the vertical wall or waterproofed. The problem is: Paint is painted down to the top of the dirt grade, the dirt gets wet below the paint line, and the moisture then travels up between the paint and vertical walls, depositing efflorescent salts and de-laminating paint from the wall. This causes “Spalling: Derogation of a concrete surface vertical or horizontally.”

Oxidation accrues when a low-voltage electrical current is developed. Who this starts is: You need moisture, oxygen, and steel. When all three are present, oxidation happens. This oxidation of the interior rebar will grow to 5 times its size, breaking out the side of the foundation at its weakest point to the outside walls. This allows more moisture and oxygen and will accelerate the oxidation of the electrical drive. This can and will continue to go around a home unless it is not stopped. The only way to stop this electrical drive is to remove the rebar and replace it with a corrosion-resistant reinforcement bar.

Waterproofing

Waterproofing foundation walls is vital to all home foundations. Waterproofing will stop the “Spalling and corrosion of steel rebar reinforcement.”