23 Oct Underpinning: Strengthen Your Home’s Foundation
Discover the benefits of underpinning for your home's foundation. Learn how this process strengthens and stabilizes your property, ensuring long-lasting structural integrity....
Discover the benefits of underpinning for your home's foundation. Learn how this process strengthens and stabilizes your property, ensuring long-lasting structural integrity....
Things You Should and Shouldn't Do Regarding Underpinning DO's: Consult with a Professional: Before starting any basement underpinning project, consult with a structural engineer or a qualified basement underpinning contractor. They can assess your basement's condition and provide guidance tailored to your specific needs. Obtain Permits: Ensure you...
"Understanding the Basics: Reinforcing Your Basement" Basements are often overlooked spaces, relegated to storage or laundry duty. However, they hold immense potential for adding livable square footage to your home. Underpinning, a construction method aimed at increasing the depth of a basement, can transform this neglected...
The occurrence of cracks in your foundation can be a result of numerous factors. Cracks in the foundation are quite common in most homes. It is important to know when to worry about foundation cracks and when it can be left alone. Hairline Cracks in the...
ACCL Waterproofing: Underpinning Basements The basement is the first place you should examine if you want to make your home more habitable. But what if your basement is unfinished or has to be lowered to make your family more comfortable? This is where the procedure of...
What is basement UNDERPINNING? Basement underpinning is the process of strengthening and stabilizing the foundation of an existing building or structure. Not only does basement underpinning strengthen your home’s existing foundation and structure it also adds extra space and height (basement lowering). In this article...
Ensuring your basement is ready this thaw season! thaw seasons happen during the early months of the year in Canada despite it being winter we experience a couple of days or weeks of warm weather. Having warm weather periods during the winter can result in...
What Is Parging? Basement parging is the coating applied to the visible above-grade portion of your home’s foundation walls. Often parging is seen as an added decoration that completes the look of a home’s exterior or interior by hiding surface imperfections and marks. However, most homeowners...
In construction, basement foundation underpinning is the process of strengthening and stabilizing the foundation of an existing building or other structure or most commonly done for the purpose of basement lowering thereby creating additional height. Creating basement space under the existing structure also requires underpinning...