Old Homes Need Help With Sagging Floors

There are lots of old homes around Delmarva that have sagging floors, settling piers, or sinking beams, due to rotting or weight added to the floor that couldn't handle the load. This is a normal phase that most old homes go through, and DryZone can help with these problems.

We recently had a man call about an old home he had purchased. He told us that the floors were sagging towards the middle of the house. There are many different structural support solutions we could of used, but it was decided that a SmartJack Crawl Space Stabilizer was the best way to go.The SmartJack is a high-capacity, adjustable steel pier. It is designed to stop settling and even raise your floor back up to where it was. It is an easy and cost-effectively installation in a crawlspace. The support jackworks by transferring the load of a house from the beams and sending it downwards into the existing soils. They're stronger, cleaner, better, and faster to install than concrete beams.

To install a crawl space jack, a hole is first created and a solid base of engineered fill is established under the location of the jack. A formed concrete base is placed on the fill, and the crawl space jack is mounted on top.After installation, the SmartJack, can then be tightened and adjusted appropriately to secure the support and help to lift the floor beam above if there was any future settling.

This was done to a house in Camden, but DryZone caters all over Delmarva, including Easton, Salisbury, Ocean City, and Pittsville.