Foundation Repair in Navarre, OH

Why Navarre foundations crack and settle

Homes around Navarre sit on the dense glacial clay that runs through Stark County, and that soil drains slowly. After a hard rain or a spring thaw, water lingers in the ground around your footings and pushes inward as hydrostatic pressure. That steady load works on block walls year after year, and it usually shows up first as stair-step cracks climbing the mortar joints or a slow inward bow near the middle of the wall.

The clay under Navarre also swells when it soaks up moisture and shrinks as it dries out through summer. That swell and shrink cycle lifts and drops the soil under different parts of the house at different rates, so a corner or one side of the foundation can start to settle. When that happens we often see cracks that widen toward the top, gaps opening where the wall meets the framing, and floors that no longer feel level upstairs.

We have repaired foundations across Navarre and the rest of Stark County since 1985, so we know how these older block basements behave. Sticking doors and windows on the first floor, a wall that leans in a little more each season, or a horizontal crack running the length of the block are all signs the foundation is moving. We inspect it, tell you plainly what is going on, and fix it with methods that carry a transferable lifetime warranty.

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