10-20-2007, 04:27 AM
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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
you know, if I could remove my leg for the sole purpose of being able to kick myself in the arse I would! But my entire situation is somewhat complicated.
Do I have a legal recourse at all? When that one big earthquake hit us a month or so ago. I was at home and watched as my floor seemed to buckle under the quake. It all seemed in slow motion!
To top it off, found another centipede last night in my kid's bathroom!
Handle every situation like a dog,If you can't eat it or hump it,piss on it and walk away...
Edited by - Beachboy on 10/20/2007 08:28:16
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