Prolonged crawlspace moisture weakens wooden floor framing, causing interior floors to sag, bounce, and separate from baseboards. We restore structural integrity using commercial hydraulic jacks to slowly level floor spans, sistering rotted timbers with engineered LVL lumber, and installing heavy-duty steel support columns.
When relative humidity exceeds 80%, wood-decay fungi feed on the cellulose in joists and carrying girders. As joists lose compression strength, furniture weight and foot traffic cause floors to deflect downward, creating sticking doors, sloping rooms, and cracked drywall.
Lifting a house too quickly causes drywall cracking and framing stress. Our structural technicians deploy multi-point 20-ton hydraulic jacks, raising deflected floor spans in calibrated 1/8-inch increments over several hours back to true level.
Decayed floor joists are treated and reinforced by sistering full-length engineered Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) beams alongside existing timbers, fastened with structural adhesive and staggered high-strength through-bolts.
To replace crumbling temporary concrete block stacks, we pour solid concrete footing pads and install heavy-gauge galvanized steel screw-jack columns capable of supporting 50,000+ pounds each with lifetime adjustment capability.
Yes. By strategically supporting and hydraulically jacking carrying beams from the crawlspace, we can restore living room and hallway floors to their original plane.
Our calibrated multi-point jacking protocol lifts floors very slowly to minimize interior stress, ensuring existing finishes remain protected.
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is twice as strong as standard lumber, completely straight, and impervious to twisting or shrinking over time.