Maintaining Your Home’s Foundation

Your home’s foundation needs to be inspected regularly, because the foundation is so important to the structural integrity of your home.

When there is heavy precipitation, water can seep through the gaps and cracks in your foundation. In fact, your foundation can suffer from water damage even absent a major weather event if your lawn is poorly irrigated or is near a body of water. When water enters the foundation, it weakens the foundation and also the soil around your home, causing the property to settle deeper into the ground. In turn, the entire home may grow unstable.

During winter, your foundation is particularly susceptible to damage, especially if it already has some cracks. When the ground freezes in the winter, the soil expands, which puts pressure on the foundation, causing old cracks to worsen and creating new ones.  Similarly, when it is very dry in the summer, your foundation may settle further than intended.

Generally speaking, small cracks in the exterior of your home are not something to worry about, but large cracks are a sign that your foundation is likely compromised. Additionally, large cracks in interior walls or ceiling junctions; uneven floors or door frames; rotten wood; walls pulling away from the house; and nails coming out from drywall, are all warning signs of potential weakness.

A faulty foundation will cause the value of your home to drop significantly in value.  So, regular inspections are crucial to ensure that if you do indeed have foundation issues, you have sufficient time to remedy them before they become major problems.

Foundation inspections cost an average of $400 to $750, but can go as high as $3,000 for larger homes. But No Worry Home offers a much more cost effective solution: we perform a foundation inspection each season when we visit your home, and this inspection is included in the $2,800 price of your annual maintenance membership, which includes dozens of other high-value services.

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