10-19-2007, 05:01 PM
This seems like another case of not doing your homework before contracting with a builder.
Check, check, check before you build, build, build. What you are describing appears to be a failure in the base material or subgrade. If the subgrade wasn’t stabilized and the base material is inferior and or not compacted correctly you will get cracks. The bad thing about this type of failure is that you can’t do a thing about it. The failure is below the concrete and you can’t repair it. The best you can do is fill in the cracks every year and live with it.
That’s not entirely true you might be able to drill horizontally under the slab and pump it with non shrinking grout and that MAY stabilize the pad. It may or may not work and it is quite expensive.
"Many dreams come true and some have silver linings, I look for my dreams and a pocket full of gold" Led Zeppelin
Check, check, check before you build, build, build. What you are describing appears to be a failure in the base material or subgrade. If the subgrade wasn’t stabilized and the base material is inferior and or not compacted correctly you will get cracks. The bad thing about this type of failure is that you can’t do a thing about it. The failure is below the concrete and you can’t repair it. The best you can do is fill in the cracks every year and live with it.
That’s not entirely true you might be able to drill horizontally under the slab and pump it with non shrinking grout and that MAY stabilize the pad. It may or may not work and it is quite expensive.
"Many dreams come true and some have silver linings, I look for my dreams and a pocket full of gold" Led Zeppelin
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