Beware: Brick Stitching and wall crack repairs
Wall cracks are often a visible symptom of a larger problem: ground movement. Wall crack repairs and repaired brickwork that are glued in conjunction with steel bars often result in the existing ground movement pressures transferring further down the wall. This is due to the ground not being sufficiently treated to stop movement. This means cracks will re-emerge, expand and new cracks are also likely to appear.
Why quick fix repairs don’t work
While some crack repair services offer technologies that stitch or patch cracks, and guarantee that this will prevent the same crack reappearing, they will not prevent other cracks from appearing in new places. These forces will simply transfer stress to the next weakest point throughout your home. If the ground and foundations are stabilised properly, mechanical stitching is not required.
Resinject stop ground movement and prevent wall cracks
In order to prevent cracks from appearing or getting worse, the ground beneath the foundations needs to be properly consolidated. Resinject offers a resin injection system that stabilises and consolidates the ground and prevents future movement of your foundations and home.
Beware: fixed-price quoting structures
With resin injection ground consolidation, there is always a degree of unknown because the ground beneath your property can vary in different ways. Beware of fixed-price quoting, because repair services cannot put guarantees on what they don’t know!
Ground condition is never certain
The ground is a mixture of different sub soils all exhibiting different movement properties. Geotechnical services are readily available to conduct investigations, testing and reporting for site specific ground conditions. Ground density across a single property is rarely consistent, this means certain areas will behave differently to other areas within the same property. Geotechnical DCP tests can be useful to all parties involved.
How Resinject quote
Resinject offers an honest and transparent quoting structure to reflect the reality that the ground quality at a site can be uncertain. Our experienced expert technical assessors will provide a simple quote, charging price per kilogram of resin they believe will be necessary to complete a project. An additional contingency is required to allow for any unforeseen voids or weaker than expected ground condition – After all we are only human and cannot 100% guarantee ground condition even with Geotechnical reporting.
Why fixed-priced quoting is misleading
Offering a fixed-price on the volume of resin before a project has begun is misleading because you can’t know how the ground will behave and how much resin will be needed to complete a job correctly. Resinject’s quoting is inclusive of contingencies in case more resin is required, as a job is not complete until we have confirmation of stabilisation and consolidation.
