Concrete Lifting and Leveling Before & After Photos

The gap seen in the before picture between the 1st and 2nd step was an issue for this homeowner, and they wanted it fixed. You see, a gap like this usually means that there is some settling occurring under your concrete slabs. If the settling is too extreme and reaches a certain threshold, your slabs could crack from imbalanced support. The gap seen in the pictures can also invite rain water under your slabs, further accelerating the settling process.

We fixed all these problems by:

1. Leveling the slabs by raising parts with PolyLevel foam injections.

2. Sealing the gaps and cracks with our concrete sealant.  

Do you have a concrete slab thats needs lifted? Here at The Basement Doctor, we can solve the problems that soil wash out can cause. In this case, soil had completely washed away from this front porch, and was close to completely cracking. Instead, we filled the void underneath with our PolyLevel foam. 

Some concrete pads had settled around this home in Cleves, OH, causing some gaps to form. If you look closely at where the pad meets the brick wall in the before picture, you can see the pad had sunken by about 2 inches. We raised the concrete slab using our PolyLevel foam, which was injected underneath the slab to jack it up. Our PolyLevel is lightweight, clean, and stable, allowing our technicians to work out some troubling concrete problems relatively easy. 

Concrete is a very heavy material, and when you have thick slabs sitting on top of unstable soil, you could see some pretty large cracks as a result. In the before picture, if you look just under the blue line, you can see how the slab is slanted downwards towards the left. We were able to level the slab by injecting the left side with our PolyLevel foam. Our foam gets injected underneath the concrete, and is strong enough to raise the slab back to where it originally was. We then seal everything with our concrete sealers, which will cover everything up. 

This existing sidewalk along a busy road in Florence, KY didn't really match the newly paved and painted road it was adjacent to. The sidewalk had cracks up and down the street because the soil the sidewalk was resting on was shriveling up. The shriveled up soil created space for part of the sidewalk to fall into, creating cracks that could be considered a tripping hazard for the public. After receiving multiple offers and bids for the job, the City of Florence decided they wanted us to do the job because of our foam jacking method. Our PolyLevel foam is a better alternative to mudjacking because it is way cleaner and faster. After we carefully injected the slabs with our patented foam, we were able to get the sidewalk leveled out, eliminating the tripping hazards. After only a couple of hours, the sidewalk was back upon to the public.