Mudjacking: Elevating your life

Have you ever experienced a sunken surface while walking on your house’s sidewalk? Have you ever stumbled over the uneven level of your backyard? While washing your car in front of your garage have you seen the water going underground between the patios? Or while sipping your coffee sitting on your verandah, have you felt your chair is misbalanced?

If yes, then we are sure you need to take better care of your lovely home. Your home needs your attention more than any assets of yours. Owning a house is a responsibility which asks for a timely look after.

The aforesaid instances are the signs of ageing of your home. Sunken patios & cracked and unevenly leveled verandah these all demand for repair. Getting into repairing of your house is a task which is time taking and demands wise decision making, as in today’s life we want everything quick and instant.

Breaking the old trend of replacing the surfaces for repair new technology is in the market called "Mud Jacking". Let us explain the term "mud jacking"

"Mud Jacking"

Mudjacking is a process of elevating the sunken surfaces with use of a special mixture, made to fill the hollow spaces under the surface. We experience sunken surfaces & slabs quite often in our home, buildings, etc. This may be caused due to various reasons such as a shift in the ground earth, displacement of concrete beneath the surface or breakage due to any architectural fault.

Mudjacking is an instant solution to this problem. This process comprises of three simple steps:

• Drilling the holes: This is the first step where holes are drilled in the sunken surface on symmetrical distances.
• Filling the slurry: Slurry is a special mixture made to fill the hollow beneath the sunken surface. It dries up quickly and settles fast, filling all the gaps.
• Sealing the holes: The holes are then sealed with good quality cement.

Mudjacking provides you instant solution and you do not have to wait for days to use the treated surface.

Benefits:

Mud jacking is beneficial in many ways; it is a quick process which involves lesser money than any other repair processes. Below are few of the benefits of mud jacking:

• Pocket friendly: Mudjacking is very economical. It may cost you a fractional amount than the cost of replacing the entire surface.
• Less time consuming: It is less time consuming as it does not involves breaking the surface. The slurry used to fill the holes dies up quickly and let you use the surface within few hours.
• Environment friendly: Mudjacking is an environment friendly process as it doesn’t leave any debris behind. It is not a very noisy process hence you contribute in lessening the noise control.
• Prevention from Rodents, grass & water gathering: As it fills all the hollow spaces it does not provide spaces for rodents to enter or grass to grow or any storage of water.

The Mud jacking process is very useful & can be availed easily by hiring a professional. Strengthening the surfaces, mud jacking provides you hassle free repair. It is a technique which is very much popular these days. If you have any sunken surfaces in & around your house, it is the right time to get mudjacking done.