Your foundation carries everything. Laval Concrete digs, forms, reinforces and pours footings and walls to the engineer's spec for new homes and additions. When an existing foundation shows cracks, settles, or leaks, we repair it right. Every job includes a free written estimate and a firm completion date.
The footing is where the building's weight meets the soil, so it has to be sized right and placed on stable ground. We excavate to the engineer's depth, confirm the bearing layer, and form the footing to the exact dimensions on the drawings before any concrete arrives.
Walls go up next, formed plumb and straight, rebar tied tight to spec, and concrete placed without voids or cold joints. The slab cures before backfill, which means no shortcuts and no surprises later. Basement concrete work follows the same discipline.
Drainage finishes the job. Waterproofing the foundation and installing weeping tile keeps groundwater out, which keeps the basement dry year-round. Driveway concrete and other residential pours all start with this same foundation-first mindset.
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The sequence
Pouring a Foundation Slab in Laval, Step by Step
Dig and verify
Excavation reaches the engineered depth, bearing soil is confirmed, and the site is surveyed and staked to match the drawings before ordering concrete.
Form and reinforce
Footings and walls are formed straight, rebar is tied to spec, and the work is inspected and approved before the concrete truck arrives.
Place and finish
Concrete is placed and vibrated to eliminate voids, footings first then walls, using the mix design specified on the engineer's drawings.
Protect and cure
Forms are removed on schedule, walls are sealed or waterproofed, and the foundation cures fully before any backfill or load is applied.
When concrete fails
Catching Foundation Cracks Early Saves Money
Small cracks often go unnoticed until water starts seeping in or a door begins to stick. Crack repair on a foundation catches those early, before frost and water pressure make them worse.
Bigger problems need bigger fixes. Foundation repair addresses the root cause, whether it is settlement, poor soil, or a load the original footing was never designed to carry. Underpinning deepens or widens the footing when needed. Pairing any repair with waterproofing ensures the problem does not return.
Installation, repair, waterproofing and what foundation work involves in Laval.
Yes. Foundation installation is formed, reinforced and poured to the structural engineer's drawings, footing size, wall thickness, rebar and mix design, and is ready for inspection before the pour.
Watch for stair-step or horizontal cracks, bowing walls, doors and windows that stick, sloping floors or a damp basement corner. Any of those is worth a look, and crack repair early is far cheaper than structural repair later.
Yes. Foundation waterproofing excavates the affected wall, addresses the cracks, applies a proper waterproof membrane and restores drainage and weeping tile so groundwater is carried away instead of pushing in.
Underpinning extends a foundation deeper or wider when the original footing cannot carry the load, common when adding a storey, lowering a basement, or correcting a footing on poor soil.
Yes. We pour footings and foundation walls for additions, tied in or isolated from the existing foundation as the engineer specifies, and matched so the addition settles with the house, not against it.
Footings and a foundation wall for a two-storey addition. Poured to the engineer's drawings, passed inspection first try, and they sent photos at every stage.
F. W.
Laval
★★★★★
Had a crack that leaked every spring. They excavated the wall, sealed it properly and redid the weeping tile. Bone dry through the next melt.
O. D.
Repentigny
★★★★★
Underpinning to lower our basement. Careful, methodical work, and they explained every step so we understood what was happening under the house.
H. S.
Longueuil
★★★★★
Caught a few small cracks early on their assessment and sealed them before winter. Honest about what needed doing now versus what could wait.
N. R.
Montreal
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New build, addition, or a foundation showing wear, send us the drawings or describe what you are seeing and we will visit the site with a written, itemised quote.
