Foundation Repairs in Etobicoke

Foundation Repairs in Etobicoke

Etobicoke has three kinds of foundation and each fails its own way. The 1950s bungalows across Alderwood, Rexdale, Eatonville and Thistletown are on concrete block: the joints leak, and when the block itself has been wet for decades it can bow inward or crack in a stair-step pattern that needs more than waterproofing. The older houses of Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch are a mix of early block and poured walls, on low ground near the lake where the water table works against them. The rebuilds in Sunnylea, Long Branch and Humber Valley are modern poured concrete — a vertical shrinkage crack at a window corner or under a beam pocket is the typical leak, and on the ravine lots of Humber Valley, settlement can open cracks that keep moving.

We inspect inside and outside before recommending anything — the crack, whether it's moved, the wall, the grading, the downspouts. A single stable crack in a poured wall is injected from inside with a flexible resin that fills the full depth; no digging, a few hours. A block wall leaking through its joints gets exterior waterproofing. A block wall that's bowing or stair-step cracked is a structural repair — bracing or partial rebuild — and we say so plainly rather than sealing over it. A crack that's still opening on a ravine lot needs the cause addressed first; injecting a moving crack is a repair that won't last.

Have it looked at when you see a crack you can fit a coin into, a crack that's wider at one end than the other, a horizontal or stair-step crack in block, a wall that isn't straight when you sight along it, a basement door that's started to stick, or a wet corner every spring. Small cracks are small jobs; a block wall left wet for twenty years is not.