Wet winters, poor drainage and loose fill soils cause most residential driveway settlement in the Pacific Northwest. Here's how to spot the cause — and whether lifting is right for your slab.
Most sinking driveways in Spokane share three culprits: water, soil and time. When the ground beneath a slab loses volume — from erosion, from decomposing organic material left during construction, or from soil compaction — the slab loses support and begins to drop.
The good news is that in the vast majority of residential driveways, the concrete itself is still structurally sound. The problem is underneath. That's exactly the situation concrete lifting is designed for: instead of demolishing a perfectly usable slab, a specialty contractor fills the void beneath it and raises the concrete back to level.
Not every slab qualifies. Deeply cracked, spalled or crumbling concrete is usually a replacement job. But a slab that has settled evenly, or tilted at one edge, with only hairline cracks along control joints, is almost always a candidate for lifting.
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Concrete leveling saves the slab you already have, at a fraction of the cost of replacement.
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