How Can You Maintain Your Home Foundation?

Constructing a new home is a dream for many people. Making a new home is quite a tedious job and it needs regular upgrade and fixes when not built under care. If you want to avoid extensive renovations after building your home, you must take care of the home in construction phase. This is a great challenge and at the initial stage you need to pay attention to the foundation. When the house foundation is not built strongly, there would be several problems. You must take care of the foundation to avoid foundation repair in future.

Foundation repair in an integral part like other routine maintenance in home the year-round. It keeps the house strong and removes underlying issues. Here are the maintenance tips for the foundation.

Maintenance Tips

If there are minor cracks in the home, do not ignore those. Remember where the cracks are and measure the depth and length. Check the cracks every month. If they are expanding, you need to call for home foundation repair service.

Try to maintain the moisture level of the house. The soil always tends to absorb the considerable water amounts. In the heavy rainy days or in the rainy season, the soil swells up and becomes wet. On the contrary, in the summer the soil dries and shrinks. This constants expansion and contracts pressure on the home foundation. If you want to prevent the possible damage, you can use soaker hose. It helps keep balancing the moisture level. You must water the home foundation. It will not fix the current problem but will slow down the degradation.

Keep the drainage exit away from the foundation perimeter and make sure there is no water pool formation or standing water near the foundation slab. It may insist the moisture level to increase and also will reduce the soil movement under the foundation slab.

Are you sure that trees around the home are not causing any issue? Hire experts for foundation repair if there are large trees around the home. Water the trees in the dry season otherwise it will absorb water from the foundation. The roots will find water from the home foundation beneath the house foundation.

Check if there is any leak in and out of the home. If there are problems in the sewer lines, water line or in the plumbing system, you must fix it to stop potential foundation issues. Leaking water will cause trouble to the surrounding areas as well as foundation.

Call Ram Jack by American Leveling if there are existing issues with your foundation. We will help you through the home foundation repair and maintenance process.