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Sinking Concrete Behind Your Bulkhead? What Galveston Waterfront Property Owners Need to Know Owning waterfront property in Galveston comes with conditions that inland property owners rarely have to consider. Water levels change, storms push tremendous volumes of...
Is It the Concrete or the Ground? How to Tell What’s Really Causing Cracks, Sinking, and Uneven Slabs A crack appears across your driveway. One section of sidewalk sits lower than the next. Your patio suddenly holds water after a storm, or a corner of the pool deck...
Why Is There a Gap Under My Driveway? What Houston Homeowners Need to Know About Soil Washout and Hidden Voids Finding a gap underneath your concrete driveway can be unsettling. Soil may have washed away along one edge of the slab. Or a gap has opened where the...
Your driveway was sinking, so you had it repaired. Maybe someone filled the low area, patched the cracks, mudjacked the slab, added soil around the edges, or even leveled the concrete. For a while, everything looked better. Then the cracks started opening again. The...
A depression forming around a manhole may look like a pavement problem and sometimes it is, but when asphalt or concrete repeatedly settles around a manhole, storm drain, sewer structure, or other underground utility, the visible damage at the surface may be only one...
Concrete settlement around a commercial property rarely begins as a dramatic failure. More often, it starts with something small like a sidewalk panel that sits slightly lower than the one beside it, water collecting near an entrance after a storm, a loading area that...
A small depression in the ground behind a bulkhead can be easy to dismiss. Maybe the landscaping seems slightly lower than it was last season. A gap develops beneath a section of concrete near the water, or you add soil to the same spot only to find that it has...
A culvert pipe is supposed to move water safely beneath a driveway, roadway, parking area, or other structure. When everything is functioning correctly, water enters one side of the culvert, passes through the pipe, and exits without disturbing the soil supporting the...
Seeing a small gap beneath the edge of a driveway or sidewalk may not seem like an urgent problem. Maybe you notice dirt missing beneath one corner of the patio after a heavy storm, or you can suddenly see underneath a section of your pool deck that used to sit firmly...
