St. Albert Foundation Repair

Basement Crack Repair – St. Albert & surrounding area

Edmonton-based Abalon Foundation Repairs has served homeowners in the St. Albert area for over 44 years. Abalon continues to offer our experience in commercial and residential foundation repairs in St. Albert and the surrounding areas. by utilizing our franchise’s experience in Western Canadian soil types, our professional and experienced year-round project estimators, managers, and foundation repair technicians, and offering the industry’s best (transferable) Lifetime Warranty when repairing our homeowners leaking basements.

For over four decades, we have had the experience and reputation to honour our guarantees and the expertise to complete your foundation crack repairs correctly the first time.

We’ve developed a strong reputation in the St. Albert area due to our commitment to solving each homeowner’s unique foundation concerns through transparency and walking the homeowner through the concerns during our free initial assessment.

Our process starts by calling our office and speaking with one of our full-time office administrators to ensure your concerns are foundation-related. After booking a free estimate/evaluation for homeowners, our experienced project managers will assess the problems and provide an approach to dealing with the foundation concerns. Our scheduling staff will then schedule Alberta One-Call to mark underground utilities and tell the client when to begin the repairs. 

When dealing with foundation Repairs in St. Albert, the key to solving each home’s concern is looking for the root cause of the water seepage concerns. We’ve come to understand that foundation construction deficiencies, Alberta’s challenging soil types, and freeze-thaw cycles over winter are all concerns we’ve learned to contend with over our 44 years of operation.

Lifetime transferable warranty – 44 years serving St. Albert homeowners

Unlike other foundation repair companies in St. Albert, Abalon Foundation Repairs offers a fully transferable warranty on every foundation waterproofing project. This ensures our services are guaranteed to last for years to come… and we aren’t going anywhere. We’ve been in business long enough to honour our guarantees for repairing foundation cracks. 

The root cause of St. Albert foundation repair concerns can be deficiencies in your home’s weeping tile drainage system along the foundation of your home.  In St. Albert, weeping tile can become clogged over time due to sandy/silty soil types, separated or crushed during construction, or not connected to a proper drain system such as a Sump Pit. (Which is now part of the Alberta building code in St. Albert from the mid-1980s). St. Albert is home to many varying soil types, one of which being sand/silt that can plug weeping tile systems, preventing a working drainage system around your home’s foundation – leading to plugged or failed weeping tile systems, eventually leaking into basements.

Weeping Tile

The solution to repairing plugged weeping tile in St. Albert is to excavate areas along the exterior of your foundation down to the weeping tile. Then either hydro-vac (clean out) as much of the weeping tile as possible, or excavate and replace entire sections of weeping tile and ensure a proper connection to your home’s sump pump to ensure proper drainage around your foundation.

Sump Pit and Sump Pumps 

Another essential part of your home’s healthy foundation system to prevent water leakage is a working sump pit, and sump pump underneath your home’s basement that collects water from around your foundation/floor, and pumps this away to the city’s street. This sump pump system allows your home to direct water away from under your floor, and surrounding your foundation walls from leaking into your basement. Abalon Foundation Repair has provided sump pump services in St. Albert since 1980, and we take great pride in our wide range of solutions such as sump pump audible alarm systems, and sump pump WIFI systems that can alert your mobile device, and sump pump battery backup systems that have their own power supply to run through power outages/storms, should your sump pump fail during an outage. 

Yard Grading 

An additional step that can be taken to avoid costly foundation repairs is yard grading improvements, and landscaping around your home alongside the foundation, to push water away with positive raised grading, as well as properly raised window wells to mitigate the amount of water rushing towards your basement. Removing and replacing settled concrete around your home, adding clay and topsoil around your home, and installing window wells can all help prevent water from entering your basement. Our professional landscaping and yard grading crews are experienced to offer the solution or landscaping you require including sod, mulch, rock, paving stone, or retaining wall installations & repairs. 

Frequently Asked Questions:

Do you complete foundation repairs in all of St. Albert? 
Abalon Foundation Repair services St. Albert and the surrounding area, and offers free estimates for homeowners. 

how long can I expect a quote or repairs to take place? 
Foundation repair estimates can take around one to five business days depending on weekends, or holidays. Typically our clients wait around two to three business days to have one of our seasoned project managers come to assess their foundation repair concerns.

However, the season and demand can widely range from a few days to weeks, depending on demand. During a few days or weeks of rain, scheduling can get quite booked up… so getting the concerns dealt with in the winter or spring months (yes Abalon repairs foundations year-round with proper techniques and materials), is the best approach to avoid rainy seasonal demand. Foundation repairs can take around one to four weeks to begin from the initial call, this is due to our requirement to call Alberta One-Call to locate underground utilities in the area, to safely complete repairs for our clients.

Measures such as bringing in a restoration company to deal with the immediate demand of water damage (flooring, walls or pooling water), can be temporarily solved with towels, fans, and dehumidifiers to limit further water damage to flooring and prevent mold growth. One contractor we recommend in Edmonton and the surrounding area is Service-Master Restoration based out of Edmonton, who can help you deal with flooding before foundation repairs can be completed.

In some cases, it’s worth reaching out to your insurance company to see if they will cover the cost of the restoration contractor dealing with the interior water damage if your basement is finished. 

My home is in St. Albert, how do I know if my weeping tile is working properly? 

Signs of plugged weeping tile include:

– foundation flooding along your basement floor

– no drainage from your weeping tile connection to your home’s sump pump

– excess water around or underneath your basement floor slab which can cause heaving or severe cracking of your basement floor. 

– Musty odours or mold growth indicating excess water in/around your basement walls.