This porch foundation was crying for help!
May 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Porch Foundation Stucco, Recent News
One of the most common requests we get besides chimneys rebuilding, is for repairs porch foundation stucco repairs. Usually a corner of the porch foundation has ‘chunked’ off because of excessive water building up in the foundation. This comes from the porch runoff that usually goes down one side or another and constantly saturates a particular corner of the porch foundation stucco and ultimately causes it to fail.
This damage to this porch foundation could have lead to porch failure but we were able to stop it in time.
After a while the freezing begins to take its toll and ‘ping’, off comes a chunk of the porch foundation stucco corner and you have an ugly mess on your hands. This usually isn’t a major repair job but can take a few days to fix so be prepared.
With small jobs such as this we do not clean the foundation wall as we would on larger projects but instead
The porch foundation stucco closed off the damaged area nicely and made a nice waterproof surface protecting the foundation.
rely upon a good chemical bonding agent to facilitate the necessary bonding to the older material.
Look at the pictures and see what you think and if you are in the market for a repair such as this, give us a call. We’ll be happy to discuss your options for a porch foundation stucco repair.
This porch foundation stucco repair will gives this customer years of trouble free service.
