What do you mean you have never heard of mud jacking? Yeah well, as of two weeks ago neither had we. In addition to being out of date, this house had a lot of delayed maintenance. It is one of the reasons we were able to get such a good deal. One of the many "fix it" items on our list was a sunken section of the back patio. If I know anything about home maintenance I know that water pooling near the foundation, over time, is not a good thing.
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| An overall 4inch drop towards the house |
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| You can tell it has seen its share of pooling water.... |
It would have been a shame to rip out a patio in such great shape. In going over our options, we came across a process called mud jacking. The process involves drilling into the concrete and pumping "sludge" under the slab thus lifting it to the correct height. Sort of cool and exactly what one would expect of a process called mud jacking. In order to get the machine up to the back patio, Michael had to create a bridge through the side yard, which we affectionately call "the bramble".
With the path complete the mud jackers? were able to roll their machine up to the back of the patio and start jacking?
After a few hours and a TON of noise, the results were pretty impressive:
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| You can't even tell where the two slabs meet (hint: on white bucket) |
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| (hint: to the right of the last hole) |
Now the next time the rain comes, Buckley can catch the rain drops from the gutter without having to worry about falling off the ledge of the patio slabs.
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| Silly dog's favorite past time |
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