Foundation Repair Scottsdale, Arizona
This video was from our foundation repair job in Scottsdale, Arizona. It shows a perfect example of what spalling concrete looks like and how serious of a problem it can be regarding your property’s foundation. Notice how easily the concrete just falls away and exposes the rocks in the cement.
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Over here in the Phoenix area, I am looking at a foundation for a home. It’s landscaped away from the foundation here, that’s nice. The landscaping is good. I don’t know when that occurred, but this fracture is a perfect example of spalling. Spalling is created when you have paint on the outside of your foundation and then, over time, moisture from this side of the home. Here on this side of the house, it wasn’t landscaped correctly and hasn’t been painted in a number of years. Also, another consideration would be the foundation was poured too wet and too high of a slump, so the spelling occurs when the moisture gets trapped behind the concrete and the paint and makes the salt deposit and then slowly crumbles the concrete on the inside of it is trapping all of these salts in there causing this falling and the definition of spalling.
Basics are, you know, delamination of the surface, the weakened plane of the surface of the slab; it can be vertical or horizontal paint is not going to stick; it’s going to continue to deteriorate, and eventually, it’s going to get into the rebar, which it has we can’t see it. Still, a fracture goes right into here; it will go all the way to the rebar, and this is just coming off quickly. There’s some rebar right there’s one of the tie-downs has rusted,d and this tie down once moisture gets in there it’s going to expand the steel and once it grows it’s going to fracture this as it has, but how that happens is the paint has not been taken care of properly you need to paint your foundations keep them a protect.
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