Treating any problem with your home is rarely an enjoyable experience. Often, home issues arise suddenly and without any real warning. This leaves you with unexpected expenses and costly side effects.
Subsidence issues can be a potentially catastrophic problem for your home with much more to consider than just the cost of soil subsidence treatment. From visual issues to safety concerns, the problems caused by subsidence are wide-ranging.
Fortunately, if you address subsidence and other foundation issues early, you can dramatically reduce the cost of soil subsidence treatment.
Waiting it Out Can Make It Worse
It is true that repairs of subsidence issues can be costly and, as the expense is often unplanned, it can cause some homeowners to wait to fix any issues. Some choose to do this to save money or put off the expense. Others choose to put off a solution simply because it is a time-consuming and stressful process.
Unfortunately, the ground under your home is not able to repair itself and waiting often makes the problem worse. Not only does the cost of treating the subsidence get higher over time, the cost of repairs to side effects gets greater as well. Homeowners who wait too long to treat the issue often face increased costs. These costs come in the form of aesthetic repairs such as drywall cracks, moldings, brickwork, paint, and more; Functional repairs such as plumbing pipes and electrical wiring that becomes damaged because of the home shifting or settling; Catastrophic costs such as significant structural damage; and of course, the cost of soil subsidence treatment itself which increases with time as the problem gets worse.
A Geobear professional can help you understand your subsidence issues and address it in the most cost-effective way possible. Your Geobear pro will help you understand the total cost of repairs and even let you know if there is a better alternative for your specific foundation problems. Contact Geobear today!
Geobear has been performing soil subsidence repair globally for over 25 years!