Causes of foundation sinking

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After a foundation is laid, a number of things can change. Foundation settlement is caused by the soil itself, expanding, or compacting. Another common reason for foundation shifting is poor maintenance. This can potentially damage your property, lowering the value and perhaps even making the area dangerous. The reason this kind of damage occurs is most often due to water in the soil on which the foundation stands. The water content of the soil is never constant from one area to another, so it’s difficult to predict how the soil will react to having a foundation built into it. When the soil reacts, the result can be experienced, and even magnified into the foundation, causing severe damage to it, including sinking, or upheaval. All kinds of foundations are subject to this kind of damage.

The Water content and soil density is not always even uniform in the building area for a standard house. When this happens, the soil may rise or contract differently and cause serious damage to the foundation, causing it to potentially sink, or even severely crack the foundation itself. The danger of this kind of damage is not even limited to finically. Uneven floors can be a nasty result with very unpleasant consequences. It can created tripping hazards, damage pipelines or wires running below the house, or affect the effectiveness of a drainage system.




 




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