Hello!
We are currently looking at a new house (for us). The house we are interested in is a 1.5-story house with a basement built in 1970 and has settling damage in one corner. The house is located in a problem area for settling, so most houses have been affected here. According to measurements, the settling stopped quite some time ago, and 5 years ago the current owner took preventive measures by injecting geopolymer (is that what it's called?) under the house to fill any voids and increase the bearing capacity of the ground.
Now to the problem, the floors are noticeably sloping. How do you fix this in a house with a concrete floor structure? Is it just a matter of "floating" up the floors in the corner where they slope? With timber floor structures, you can level up the floor structure, but when it comes to concrete, I'm completely lost about what solutions are available.
I would like to know how to do this in order to estimate an approximate cost for the measure.
Thank you in advance!
We are currently looking at a new house (for us). The house we are interested in is a 1.5-story house with a basement built in 1970 and has settling damage in one corner. The house is located in a problem area for settling, so most houses have been affected here. According to measurements, the settling stopped quite some time ago, and 5 years ago the current owner took preventive measures by injecting geopolymer (is that what it's called?) under the house to fill any voids and increase the bearing capacity of the ground.
Now to the problem, the floors are noticeably sloping. How do you fix this in a house with a concrete floor structure? Is it just a matter of "floating" up the floors in the corner where they slope? With timber floor structures, you can level up the floor structure, but when it comes to concrete, I'm completely lost about what solutions are available.
I would like to know how to do this in order to estimate an approximate cost for the measure.
Thank you in advance!
