Your porch should be an inviting outdoor space, one that welcomes guests and draws you outside to enjoy the outdoors. While concrete is a very common choice for porch foundations, it is subject to settling and sinking when the ground beneath it is not adequately prepared before it is installed. Porches with settling concrete slabs can become unsightly and even unusable. That’s where porch concrete leveling comes in.
Here are four signs your porch needs our leveling services:
- The porch has settled toward the home. A clear giveaway that your porch could benefit from porch concrete leveling is when it starts to slope toward the home as it settles. As the ground shifts beneath the weight of the porch, the soil is pushed from between the home and the porch, so the porch will sink and slope toward the home.
- A gap has formed between the porch slab and the house siding. When porches settle toward the home, gaps usually begin to appear between the slab and the home’s siding. This only exacerbates the problem as water will start to seep into the gap and further the erosion and damage.
- Cracked or uneven slabs. As concrete slabs move due to the shifting soil beneath them, they become uneven and crack. When caught early, porch concrete leveling can help preserve the slab and prevent the need for a replacement.
- Misaligned doors, frames, or steps. When the porch starts to settle, doors and steps will no longer be properly aligned with it. This can turn into a tripping hazard if left untreated, but patio concrete leveling can shore up the soil beneath the patio and place it back on solid, level ground.