The Cost Effective Alternative To Concrete Replacement: Foam Jacking
One of the Biggest Money Drains: Concrete
If you’ve ever built your own house or you own a small or large scale business, you already know that concrete is one of the biggest money drains. However; unfortunately, in todays day and age, you see concrete everywhere. You even don’t see it when it is there! From basement foundations and driveways, to beneath the floor you’re walking on, concrete is everywhere, and it is not cheap! It is not cheap to pour and it is not cheap to replace.
Need a Cost Effective, “Concrete” Solution?
What would be a cost effective solution to repairing your existing concrete? The answer is concrete lifting. Concrete lifting is a cost effective alternative to replacing settled and unsupported concrete.
Concrete Lifting, Concrete Raising, Slab Jacking… What is the difference?!
To start off, I’ll let you know right off the bat that concrete lifting has many different names and terms that include, but not limited to the following: concrete raising, foam jacking, slab jacking, and in our case, polyurethane foam concrete lifting and levelling.
Polyurethane concrete lifting and levelling can usually be completed for less than half the cost of replacement. This already makes it a cost effective alternative. However, in some situations, the savings may be even greater, since labour costs for demolition, removal, and landscaping can be eliminated.
Polyurethane concrete lifting achieves essentially the same results as traditional mudjacking, but with longer-lasting and more eye-pleasing results. When polyurethane concrete lifting, a much more lightweight material, that requires much smaller and far fewer injection holes is used. Also known as foam lifting, poly lifting and foam jacking, polyurethane concrete lifting is the latest and greatest concrete repair method available. It’s a non-invasive, cost effective concrete solution and it has been around for many years now!
Not only does polyurethane concrete lifting raise your settled concrete, but it also does a better job at stabilizing the aggregates beneath it. This is comparative to mudjacking because mudjacking materials do not have the same promises. By effectively stabilizing the aggregates beneath your concrete, we can eliminate as much frost heaving as possible. By eliminating as much heaving as possible, we eliminate as much settlement as possible.
How to Get the Most Out of This Cost Effective Concrete Solution
Come springtime, you might notice that your driveway is just not where it used to be. The reason for this is the frost-heave we discussed earlier on.
By catching concrete settlement in its early-on stages, you can be sure to save as much money as possible. If you notice that your driveway does not meet flush or flat with the edge of your garage floor by about an inch or even less, its in its early settlement stage. This is the time to contact Slab-Jack Kings. You might not think that its bad enough to do something about it, but after it gets down to 2, 3 or more inches, the amount of material and time needed also goes up. And it goes up just as quickly as your concrete goes down.
Simple Math: Less does NOT Equal More in the Concrete World
In the concrete lifting department, less is not more. A smaller amount of settlement means that less product is needed for your repair. Less product means less time is needed to complete your repair. To put it simply, less settlement means that there’s more money left in your wallet.
So how can we make sure this is the case? Contact us this spring for a free estimate, when your concrete settles an inch or two, instead of calling us when it is too late and unaffordable. Let’s all utilize this cost effective concrete solution to its full potential!
Fill out our Request an Estimate form and one of our family members would be more than happy to help get you started!
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