Water & Fire Damage
Ruined drywall, subfloor and framing cut back to something solid and rebuilt, instead of patched over.
Water & Fire Damage in Burlington NCFloors that sag, bounce or slope brought back to level, with the framing underneath corrected rather than shimmed. Alamance and Guilford County.
House leveling in Burlington NC is done from the crawl space, not the floor. If the fix happens on top of the floor it is cosmetic, and the slope comes back.
House leveling and floor repair in Burlington, NC. We correct sagging, bouncing and sloping floors from underneath, across Alamance and Guilford County.
Floors do not sag on their own. By the time you can feel a slope walking across a room, or a marble rolls to one wall, something under the floor has moved. Usually it is one of four things.
All four look identical from upstairs. They need different fixes. That is why the first thing that happens is somebody gets under the house and looks, rather than quoting a solution from the living room.
A moving floor shows up all over the house before anyone connects it to the floor. Doors that used to close and now catch on the jamb. Cracks at the top corners of doorways that keep reopening after being filled. Gaps appearing between the baseboard and the floor. A bounce when someone walks past the china cabinet.
People usually treat these one at a time for years. If you are filling the same crack every spring, the wall is not the problem. See drywall repair for why re-filling a movement crack never holds.
Support gets established on something that will not move: proper footings under new piers rather than blocks set on dirt. Then the load is lifted, and it is lifted slowly.
That last part matters more than anything else on this page. A house that has settled over thirty years cannot be jacked back in a day. Everything above the floor, the drywall, the tile, the plaster, the window glass, has adapted to the shape the house is in now. Move it fast and you trade a sloping floor for cracked walls and broken tile. Level is taken back in stages, over time, so the structure follows without tearing.
Where a beam is undersized we add support or replace it. Where joists are damaged we sister new material alongside. Where the sill has gone, that section gets replaced.
Almost all of this in a Piedmont crawl space traces back to water. Poor drainage around the foundation, a crawl space that stays damp, gutters dumping at the corner of the house. Correcting the framing without dealing with the moisture means doing it again later.
We will tell you what we see down there. Some of it we fix. Some of it is grading or drainage work, and we will say so plainly rather than pretend everything is inside our scope.
There is a real line here and we would rather draw it in writing than surprise you. Framing, joists, beams, piers and floor support are our work. If what is actually happening is foundation failure, significant structural movement in the walls, or anything that wants an engineer's stamp, that needs a structural engineer and a foundation contractor. If we get under your house and find that, we will tell you, and we will not sell you a floor repair that does not address it.
Nobody can price this honestly without getting under the house. Cost depends on how many supports are needed, how far the floor is out, what the joists and beams look like, and how much of the crawl space is workable. We look first, tell you what we found, and price from that.
If water has already damaged the floor structure, see water and fire damage repair. Once the floor is right, the finishes on top of it can be put back. See everything we do or call (336) 380-9459.
The usual signs are a slope you can feel walking across a room, a bounce near heavy furniture, doors that catch on the jamb, gaps opening between baseboard and floor, and cracks at doorway corners that keep reopening after being filled.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who says they can. Everything above the floor has adapted to the shape the house is in now. Lifting fast trades a sloping floor for cracked walls and broken tile. Level is taken back in stages so the structure follows without tearing.
No. We work on the framing that carries the floor: joists, beams, girders, piers and sill plate. If what you actually have is foundation failure or movement that wants an engineer's stamp, you need a structural engineer and a foundation contractor, and we will tell you that rather than sell you a floor repair that does not fix it.
In a Piedmont crawl space it is nearly always moisture: poor drainage at the foundation, a damp crawl space, or gutters dumping water at the corner of the house. Correcting the framing without dealing with the water means doing it again later.
Not honestly. It depends on how many supports are needed, how far out the floor is, and what the joists and beams look like, and none of that is visible from upstairs. Somebody has to get under the house first.
Ruined drywall, subfloor and framing cut back to something solid and rebuilt, instead of patched over.
Water & Fire Damage in Burlington NCHoles, cracks, water-stained board and whole rooms. Hung, taped, floated and finished, then trim run tight.
Drywall & Trim in Burlington NCGround level and elevated decks, pool decks, stairs and railings. Framed from the footings up and built to code.
Decks & Pool Decks in Burlington NCWe will get under the house, look properly, and tell you what is actually happening.
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