Foundation Repair in Plymouth, OH

Why Plymouth foundations crack and settle

Plymouth sits on the water-holding glacial clay that runs across this corner of North Central Ohio, and that soil drains slowly. After a hard rain or a spring snowmelt the ground around your house stays saturated for days, and all that trapped water pushes against your basement walls. We have watched this hydrostatic pressure work on Plymouth foundations since 1985, and over time it is what starts a block wall bowing or leaning inward.

Clay does more than hold water, it swells when wet and shrinks as it dries through a hot summer. That constant push and pull loosens the mortar joints in a block foundation, and the first sign most Plymouth homeowners notice is a stair-step crack climbing the corner of the basement. Left alone, those cracks widen and the wall begins to move, which is exactly the point where carbon-fiber straps or the Richtech Stabilizer System can lock it back in place.

Our freeze-thaw winters add one more strain. Water soaks into the soil, freezes, expands and grips the foundation, then thaws and lets go, cycle after cycle. Combined with clay that settles unevenly under one corner of the house, this is why Plymouth homeowners start to see settling, doors and windows that stick upstairs, and gaps opening at the trim. We have been fixing these problems here for four decades, and we look at each one in person before we recommend a repair.

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