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Don't Let Unlevel Concrete Ruin Your Labor Day Pool Party!

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Picture It....

You invite your friends and family over for Labor Day to have one last pool party of the summer. The sun is out, not a cloud in the sky, good music playing, the smell of hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill poolside, the kids and grandparents floating around in the glistening blue water.. Ah, what a perfect way to end the summer. But then it happens.. 

Everyone is starving and ready to eat when you drop the plate of hotdogs and burgers fresh off the grill after your toe caught the edge of your concrete slab that is tilting up. 

One of the kids is over by the diving board crying because they tripped over your unlevel concrete and while their parent is holding their baby to console them, they shoot you a dirty look. 

Your teenager who got their braces off a week ago just chipped their tooth from falling over that same concrete patch by the diving board. 

And there it is. Your seemingly perfect end to summer pool party, ruined by unlevel concrete. 

Raise It, Don't Replace It! 

Many concrete pool decks are prone to settling because of the pool construction process. The backfill soil that is added around the pool excavation will not be as dense or well-compacted as the undisturbed soil. When a heavy concrete slab is poured around the pool, loose soil will often compress under the slab's weight and cause sections of the concrete to sink or settle. 

Some contractors still use the old-school repair for settled concrete. They use heavy equipment to demolish the cracked, settled sections of concrete around your swimming pool, and pour a new concrete deck. With concrete replacement, you often get a damaged yard and a pool that's off limits until the new concrete hardens and cures. Our concrete leveling method saves you time and money, and won't disrupt your landscaping. 

How PolyLevel works

Injecting PolyLevel expanding foam beneath a settled pool deck will raise the concrete back to proper level and also strengthen the soil so that the problem won't recur. The two-part polyurethane foam mixture is injected through small holes drilled in the settled concrete. Our installers are trained to control the injection process so that just enough foam is used to re-level the concrete deck. Because the foam's expanding action fills voids in loose soil, this concrete leveling technique improvers the soil's stability and load-bearing characteristics. You can feel confident that settlement won't occur again and your end-of-summer pool party crisis is adverted! 

So what are you waiting for? Raise it, don't replace it! Call us today at 1-304-768-2135 for FREE, no obligation estimate from one of our expert Solution Specialists. There's still time before your last hoorah of the summer! 

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Alford Foundation and Crawl Space Repair
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St. Albans, WV 25177
1-304-948-5855