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Service areas / Gladstone, MO
North of the river
Foundation repair and waterproofing for Gladstone and the Northland.
Gladstone housing
Gladstone sits in the Northland, north of the Missouri River in Clay County, and much of the city grew up in the years after World War II. That means a lot of ranch homes and split-levels, many of them with block or poured basement walls that have now carried decades of soil pressure.
Northland clay behaves like the rest of the metro: it swells when wet, shrinks when dry, and gets pushed around by freeze and thaw cycles in the winter. On a basement wall, that pressure is constant. Over time, it can show up as a long horizontal crack, a wall that bows inward, or blocks that start to shift.
With part of the house over a basement and part on a slab or crawlspace, different sections of the foundation can move at different rates. That can show up as cracks where the levels meet or doors between levels that start to stick.
Symptom guide
A quick guide for Gladstone homeowners.
Helical tiebacks use an outside anchor, a high-strength rod, and an inside wall plate to stabilize the wall. Learn more about foundation repair.
Steel push piers are driven to load-bearing soil and can lift the structure back toward its original position. Helical piers handle lighter loads or deep load-bearing layers.
Options include interior perforated drain pipe, exterior membrane and drainage board, sump pumps, and French drains. See basement waterproofing.
Polyjacking fills it with high-density polyurethane foam and lifts the concrete.
If part of the house sits over a crawlspace, a water-retardant vapor barrier can help. See crawlspace encapsulation.
Start here
Before anything else, check your gutters and downspouts. In older neighborhoods, short downspouts that empty right at the foundation are one of the biggest sources of basement water and wall pressure, and they are an easy place to start.
Gladstone homes on slab sections and with attached garages also see sinking garage floors and front stoops, which polyjacking can lift without replacing the concrete.
Nearby
We serve the Northland from our Raytown office.
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