Foundation Repair in Loudonville, OH

Why Loudonville foundations crack and settle

Loudonville sits in the rolling Mohican country near the Mohican River and state park, and that scenic landscape rests on the same dense glacial clay found across Ashland County. When rain and snowmelt saturate that clay it drains slowly, so water pools against your foundation and pushes on the walls with steady hydrostatic pressure. Over the years that pressure works block walls hard, and they answer with stair-step cracks running through the mortar joints or a slow inward bow.

Our winters make the problem worse. Water in the soil freezes, expands and shoves against the wall, then thaws and lets it settle back, and that freeze-thaw cycle repeats all season long. On the sloping lots around town, runoff collects on the uphill side of a home and loads one wall more than the rest, so a wall can start to lean or a corner can settle as the ground below gives way. We have watched this pattern play out on Loudonville foundations since 1985.

You usually feel the trouble upstairs before you see it in the basement. When a foundation settles or a wall moves, the framing above shifts with it, and doors and windows that used to work start to stick, catch or swing on their own. Down in the basement you might find a horizontal crack across a bowing block wall or a widening gap in a corner. We read those signs, find the real cause and stabilize the foundation so it stays put.

• Free, no-pressure foundation inspection anywhere in Loudonville
• 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 Loudonville 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