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Underpinning Melbourne
At Buildfix, we don’t underpin your Melbourne home using traditional methods. Instead, we offer you an affordable, modern underpinning solution that doesn’t disrupt the structure of your home at all.
What is underpinning?
More importantly, underpinning corrects subsidence to stop Melbourne homes from sinking, enduring further damage and costing homeowners more to repair.
Why is underpinning essential to a sinking Melbourne home and Melbourne homeowners?
For this reason, it’s important to have an understanding of what’s making your Melbourne home subside. It’s also important to understand the advantages and disadvantages various underpinning methods can bring.
What are the top causes of subsidence in a Melbourne home?
Winter Soil Expansion
Rainfall Expands Clays
Tree Roots
Poor Drainage Destabilizes
Cracked Pipes
What are the different types of underpinning used in Melbourne?
Mass concrete underpinning
Mass concrete underpinning is the most commonly known type of underpinning in Melbourne and is sometimes referred to as traditional underpinning. It involves excavation of large holes underneath a home to build box shaped piers to support a Melbourne home’s structure.
While it may be the most well known method throughout Melbourne, that doesn’t mean it’s the best. Mass concrete underpinning is expensive, disruptive, and can cause long-term damage to your Melbourne home’s foundation.
Steel pile underpinning
Steel pile underpinning is an option for Melbourne homes built on reclaimed land, flood-prone areas or land that used to be a bog. Steel piles are driven deep into the ground by specially adapted, tracked excavators. Much like mass concrete underpinning, this method can be expensive, and isn’t always effective. In some cases, the steel piles can make structural problems worse by causing weak soil to shift even further.
Cement grout underpinning
Cement grout underpinning is a form of preventative maintenance for subsiding Melbourne buildings and structures. Underpinning can be achieved by pumping a concrete mix or a non-shrink cement grout under structures to fill in large holes and voids.
This underpinning method works well if the gaps below a building or structure are large and easy to find. However, this method can be very costly and time-consuming, and may not always be effective in stopping subsidence.
Resin Injection Underpinning – GeoPoly™
Geopoly™ is the answer for Melbourne’s homeowners. An affordable, efficient and completely modern way to stop homes from sinking.
If you’re a Melbourne homeowner with a subsidence problem, look no further. Geopoly™ is our very own, proprietary geopolymer soil stabilisation solution and easily the most advanced option on the market to underpin your Melbourne home.
Using the latest geopolymer technology, it compacts weak ground and raises house foundations which may close up cracks and re-level your floors. More importantly, you can avoid the lengthy process of traditional underpinning methods and the high price tag that can come with them.
If you’re looking for a quick and effective alternative that’s guaranteed to last, Geopoly™ is definitely the way to go.
GeoPoly™-
Underpin your Melbourne home and stop subsidence for good.
Buildfix, Melbourne’s top underpinners!
We started Buildfix with the motivation of putting smiles on the faces of Melbourne’s homeowners by providing genuine expertise and value for money. We care about the safety and satisfaction of customers, deeply.
So far, we’ve finished 10,000+ repair projects to tens of thousands of beaming customer smiles. But it doesn’t stop there. We intend on continuing to do this for years to come in Melbourne.
Our leading technologies, breadth of experience and depth of understanding of Melbourne’s unique terrain makes us the right repair provider for you.
Melbourne is a huge place but we’d be happy to come to you. Whether you’re in any of these areas-
- Melbourne
- Port Philip
- Yarra
- Banyule
- Darebun
- Hume
- Moreland
- Nillumbik
- Whittlesea
- Boroondara
- Knox
- Manningham
- Maroondah
- Whitehorse
- Yarra Ranges
- Bayside
- Cardinaia
- Casey
- Greater Dandenong
- Frankstone
- Glen Eira
- Kingston
- Monash
- Mornington Peninsula
- Stonnington
- Brimbik
- Hobson’s Bay
- Maribyrnong
- Melton
- Moonee Valley
- Wyndham
– or outside these areas, you can trust we’ll come to help you out.
Our underpinning solution promises
FREE structural assessment
Our team will come to your home to see if it’s subsiding at no cost. Our quotes are free as well. Save money from the get-go.
Transparent quotes
After we’ve completed your quote, we don’t change it. We don’t add extra costs at the last minute. With us, there are no tricks, no games and zero surprises.
Permanent repair of subsidence
Using our techniques and proprietary technology GeoPoly™️, we can underpin and lift homes permanently. What we fix stays fixed. Everything comes with a 10-year warranty.
Minimal disruptions to your life and home
With our innovative, industry leading technology, repairing your home’s subsidence shouldn’t take more than a day, or two. We don’t excavate or pull anything apart.
Lower prices
With our leading techniques and technology, we work more accurately and more efficiently than anyone else. Underpinning should only cost between $4K to $16K*.
*Based on averages, subject to inspection.
An inspection of your Melbourne home – free!
