Garage floors take a lot of wear and tear from vehicles, heavy equipment, and seasonal temperature changes. Over time, these factors can lead to cracks, uneven surfaces, and other problems that affect both safety and appearance. COMMON ISSUES WITH GARAGE FLOORS Garage floors can sink or crack due to soil settling or erosion, often caused […]
If you don’t have a basement or a crawl space under your house, you have a concrete slab foundation. This is common knowledge, right? But did you know that there are different types of slab foundations? In fact, I think most homeowners assume the same thing I did - that every slab foundation is built […]
Slabjacking is one of the primary services that we offer at Acculevel. In previous articles, we’ve explained how it works, when it won’t work, and compared it to helical piers as a repair option. But we keep running into questions about the term, “slabjacking,” and what it means when compared to other repair methods like […]
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[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]When your porch starts to settle, it usually happens gradually. You probably don’t even notice it at first; many of us enter our homes through the garage or a side door, rarely using our front entrance. And if it’s a side porch or an enclosed back porch, you may […]
Slab foundations are relatively common, here in the Midwest. If your home doesn’t have a basement or crawl space built under it? It’s a slab foundation home. Basements and crawl spaces both require a substantial excavation at the beginning of the project; since slab foundations are shallow, they don’t take as much preparation. That makes […]
If you’re researching this question, you are probably already familiar with concrete lifting methods or concrete leveling near you. If you’re not, or if you’d like a quick refresher on the topic, let me recommend this article that explains how concrete lifting works. We explain the process of concrete lifting (and leveling) and include a […]
Slabjacking is the concrete lifting method that we use here at Acculevel. If you’re not familiar with it, you may want to start with our blog that explores concrete leveling repair methods. Before I started writing this article, I asked our project managers and advisors for their feedback. Since they’re the Acculevel employees who […]
What does it mean if you have a sagging or sloping floor, but no basement or crawl space? I’ve read a lot of articles on sagging floors (I’ve also written a few!), and they always talk about how moisture damages the wooden floor structure under the home. But it IS possible to have an uneven […]
Based out of Rossville Indiana, Acculevel has a fairly large service area that includes Indiana and portions of the surrounding states. We are proud to be a part of the Midwestern community, where we can experience the full range of all four seasons. But we also have to acknowledge that winter in the Midwest can […]
