At Tom’s Basement Waterproofing, we strive to give our customers the tools they need to protect their home and its foundation. This includes our professional foundation piering, a powerful foundation repair method that strengthens and stabilizes your home’s foundation. Let’s take a closer look at foundation piering, the long-term benefits it brings to your home’s foundation, and whether it is the right choice for your home’s foundation.
What is Foundation Piering?
Foundation piering, or underpinning, is a foundation repair method that stabilizes foundations that have shifted or settled unevenly due to soil movement or water entering your foundation. With foundation piering, our team of foundation experts will evaluate your home’s foundation to determine the amount of damage done to your foundation from settling and analyze the composition of the soil around your foundation, as this will impact the piering method ideal for your home. We will customize our foundation piering to meet the needs of your home’s foundation and the ground it sits on to ensure the repair will stand the test of time. Once we have planned out the piering of your home’s foundation, our team will begin to excavate around it at the ideal pier installation points. Once the excavation is complete, steel piers will be driven deep into the ground to stabilize your foundation and prevent further uneven settling and damage. The piers will then be permanently fixed to your home’s foundation, giving you decades of foundation stabilization.
What Are the Long-Term Benefits of Foundation Piering?
Foundation piering offers several benefits to customers whose foundations settle unevenly or rest on unstable soil. Let’s look at some of the best benefits you get from foundation piering and how it can save you money on repairs and even make you money in the long run.
Saving Money on Future Foundation Repairs With Piering
While foundation piering comes with an upfront cost, in the long run, it can save you money on much more costly foundation repairs if your foundation is starting to settle unevenly or rests on unstable soil. Foundation piering is an effective way to eliminate repairing cracks in a foundation and releveling floors, which must be constantly kept up with if your foundation is unevenly settling. An unevenly settling foundation can fail in the worst-case scenario, leading to significant repairs. Foundation underpinning can also prevent new cracks from forming, allowing water to enter your basement and cause mildew growth and water damage inside your home. When it is time to sell your home, one of the most common ways a home is devalued on the market is when it has a foundation that is settling and starting to fail. Foundation piering can prevent this market devaluation, make your home even more attractive to buyers, and command a higher selling point.
Invest in Your Home’s Value With Foundation Piering
It is no secret that home buyers often demand a lower asking price for homes that have foundation issues. Foundation piering is one way to guarantee sellers that your home is structurally sound and will be for decades to come. Foundation piering also makes your home stand out and be more competitive than other properties, increasing the value and resale value of your home, often above the price of what you spent on foundation piering, making you money when it’s time to sell your home.
Schedule a Foundation Piering Inspection Today
To schedule a foundation piering inspection with the Tom’s Basement Waterproofing team, call us at (586) 949-7826. With five decades of foundation repair services, we strive to provide every one of our customers with the most affordable foundation repair and basement waterproofing solutions.