Foundation Repair in Aurora, OH

Why Aurora foundations crack and settle

Aurora's rolling, wooded terrain sits on the same dense glacial clay that runs across Portage County, and that clay holds water long after a storm has passed. When the soil around your basement stays saturated, it presses on the walls with hydrostatic pressure and pushes moisture through the block. Over the years that steady load works on a foundation, and we have been fixing the results for Aurora homeowners since 1985.

Portage County clay also swells when it takes on spring rain and shrinks again as it dries through summer, so your foundation walls get pushed and pulled season after season. Block walls tend to answer that movement with stair-step cracks climbing the mortar joints, a slow inward bow across the middle of the wall, or a section that begins to lean. Northeast Ohio's freeze-thaw cycles add to it, since water in the soil expands every time the ground freezes.

Not every foundation problem shows up in the basement first. When one corner or footing settles into softer soil, the frame above shifts with it, and you start to notice doors that stick, windows that bind, and cracks opening over the doorways upstairs. We look at the whole picture in an Aurora home, then match the fix to the cause with carbon-fiber straps, the Richtech Stabilizer System, steel piers, or crack injection, all backed by our transferable lifetime warranty.

• Free, no-pressure foundation inspection anywhere in Aurora
• Straightening and lifting that does not require digging up your yard
• Transferable lifetime warranty on every repair
• Financing options to fit your budget

How we fix Aurora foundations

The right fix depends on how far the wall has moved. For walls that are bowing or cracking, carbon-fiber straps and the Richtech Stabilizer System brace the wall and can straighten it back over time, all from inside the basement with no excavation.

When a corner or section of the house has settled, we underpin with steel piers driven down to stable soil to carry the load and lift the foundation back toward level. Cracks are sealed for good with epoxy and polyurethane injection. Every repair carries our transferable lifetime warranty.

• Bowing & leaning foundation walls straightened
• Settling foundations lifted with steel piers
• Stair-step & settlement cracks sealed for good
• Sticking doors & windows from foundation movement corrected