Serving Melbourne and Brevard County
Cracks, uneven floors, sticking doors, sunken driveways. We work out what is causing it before anyone talks about repairing it.
Most people call about a foundation because they noticed something and can't tell whether it's serious. A crack that wasn't there last year. A door that suddenly sticks. A driveway section sitting lower than the one beside it.
Often it turns out to be old, stable, and not worth much money. Sometimes it's water quietly washing sand out from under a corner of the slab, and that one doesn't wait. Working out which one you have is the first thing we do.
Five things, all of them foundation and concrete work on homes in Melbourne and the surrounding Brevard County area.
Sealing and repair for cracks in slabs, stem walls, and block foundations, after working out what caused them.
Repair for slab-on-grade foundations that have settled, cracked, or lost support underneath.
Underpinning and pier support for foundations that have settled unevenly.
Raising sunken driveways, walkways, patios, and garage floors by filling the voids underneath.
An evaluation of what's going on with a foundation, and whether it needs anything at all.
Been quoted for major foundation work and want another look before you commit to it.
Almost every home here sits on a concrete slab poured straight onto prepared ground. There's no crawlspace and no basement, so the slab depends completely on that ground staying where it was put.
The ground here is sand, and sand moves when water moves through it. A downspout emptying against the house, an irrigation line with a slow leak, or a supply line broken under the slab will carry soil away and leave the concrete spanning a void.
Then there's the wet and dry cycle. Soil swells through the summer rains and shrinks through the dry months, and a foundation gets worked back and forth by that every year it stands.
No, and most aren't. Concrete shrinks as it cures and hairline cracking from the first year is extremely common. What matters is whether a crack is still moving, how wide it is, and which direction it runs.
The honest answer is that you often can't tell from one look. Marking the ends of a crack, dating the mark, and checking again after a season is a genuinely useful thing you can do yourself before anyone charges you.
We work throughout Brevard County, including Melbourne, Palm Bay, Viera, Suntree, Rockledge, Satellite Beach, and Indialantic.
For significant structural movement, yes, and we'll say so rather than quote around it. An engineer works for you and has no stake in what repair gets sold.
A couple of minutes on the phone is usually enough to work out whether this needs attention now or just an eye kept on it.
Melbourne and Brevard County, Florida.