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Causes & symptoms
- Poor overhead clearance in basement
- Crumbling/disintegrating foundations
- Efflorescence, high humidity
- Inadequate basement entrance
- Pyrite
- Foundations built from concrete blocks
- Construction in an easily flooded zone
Objectives
- Restore the full value of your home
- Obtain a liveable and dry basement
Solution
- Construct an underpinned foundation (increase height by building a new foundation section underneath the existing one)
- Shoring and/or raising the structure to replace or repair the existing foundations
- Build a basement entrance protected from frost movement
- Pyrite decontamination, wall straightening and construction of a new concrete slab
- Construct a fully waterproofed foundation
Causes & symptoms
- Ground subsidence
- Progressive and/or open cracks (cracks enlarging/lengthening)
Doors and windows that no longer close properly
Objectives
- Restore the full value of your home
- Permanently stabilize the structure
- Re-level the settled structure
- Repair all cracks
- Waterproofing
Solution
- Stabilization and straightening of the building on hydraulic piles (“pile-driving”)
Causes & symptoms
- Crawl space
- Excessive moisture – high humidity
- Insects
- Mould
- Structural decay
- Lack of space
Objectives
- Create a new dry habitable basement (without odour, insects and no health risks owing to mould)
- Add value to the property
Solution
- Excavate a new basement under the house
- Reinforce the floor structure
- Repair the drainpipe (weeping tiles)
- Eliminate water-related problem (moisture-decay-odour)
Causes & symptoms
- Foundation needs to be replaced (cinder block, bad concrete, etc.)
- Contaminated soil (old oil tank, etc.)
Objectives
- Create a new foundation
- Execute all work without structural damages
- Guarantee all work quality
- Restore the full value of your home
Solution
- Build a Berlin-type retaining wall
- Temporarily support the structure or building to allow excavation and replacement of contaminated soil
- Use a unified hydraulic jacking system
Causes & symptoms
- Water infiltration
- Excessive moisture (efflorescence)
- Insects
- Humid odour
- Foundation drainage deficiencies
Objectives
- Restore the full value of your home
- Have a dry habitable basement (without odour, insects and health risks due to mould)
- Guarantee all work quality
Solution
- Site grading (management of surface water)
- Repair the drainpipe (weeping tile)
- Installation of drainage membrane or insulation
- free-draining granular backfill