Foundation Repair Misconceptions

Are you scared that you need foundation repair because you've noticed cracks in your foundation slab? Or maybe in your basement you've seen cracks spreading through the walls? Don't panic. It's not the end of the world. Now don't misunderstand, cracks in your foundation are potentially serious. But there are also quite a few misconceptions about foundation repair. Once you sort through and better understand them, you should be able to breathe a bit easier and ease your worries.

Misconception #1
If you have cracking, it automatically requires and extensive foundation repair solution

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Foundations on Black Cotton Soil

The property of volumetric changes with the change of atmospheric conditions makes black cotton soil dangerous to be founded buildings. It swells excessively when wet and shrinks excessively when dry resulting terrible cracks in soil without any warning. It has a great affinity to water. This tendency of soil is on account of the presence of fine clay particles. Cracks are formed due to movement of the ground on account of alternate swelling and shrinkage. The cracks thus formed are sometimes 15 to 20 cm wide and 2.5 to 4 m deep.

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Foundation System of Burj Dubai

Foundation System: The Tower is founded on a 3700mm thick high performance reinforced concrete pile supported raft foundation at -7.55 DMD. The reinforced concrete raft foundation utilizes high performance Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) and is placed over a minimum 100mm blinding slab over waterproofing membrane, over at least 50mm blinding slab over ---READ MORE

Raft Foundation System