Foundation Repair in Parma, OH

Why Parma foundations crack and settle

Many Parma homes went up during the post-war building boom on the dense glacial clay that runs under most of Cuyahoga County. That clay holds water tight against your foundation and drains slowly, so after a wet spring the ground beside your basement stays saturated for weeks. As that soggy soil presses on block walls, the hydrostatic pressure builds until the mortar joints give, and we see stair-step cracks climbing the corners of Parma basements every season.

The same clay that swells with rain shrinks and pulls away as it dries through a Parma summer, and our winters add hard freeze-thaw cycles that heave the soil up and drop it back down. Season after season that movement works on a wall until it starts to bow inward or lean at the top. We have watched block walls in older Parma neighborhoods take on a slow inward curve, and once a wall begins moving it will keep going without bracing to hold the line.

When the clay under one part of the house dries out or washes away, that section can settle while the rest stays put, and a corner or a porch begins to drop. Upstairs you notice it before the basement tells the whole story, with doors that stick in their frames, windows that fight you, and thin cracks over the openings. We have been diagnosing these Parma foundation problems since 1985, and we know how to tell normal settling from a wall or footing that truly needs help.

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