Cut through slab with gas powered saw fitted with 12 inch diamond blade.
Do yourself concrete lifting.
The equipment is contained in a trailer rig with a long hose capable of reaching direct to the concrete slab location.
Use diamond tipped core drill to bore several large diameter holes through slab.
Mix a small batch of fast setting concrete.
Geolift can help to lift existing concrete surfaces and fix those problem areas around your house with much less labor.
Get a carpenter s level to make sure that you don t overfill the slab too high.
Fast setting concrete is necessary to patch the holes when you re finished filling them up.
Add some of the concrete dust removed from the holes after drilling to the mix to tint the mix the same color as the slab.
Polyurethane foam is then injected under the slab filling voids and raising it to the correct level.
Concrete lifting with a small sledge hammer brick chisel and drill this is another method for doing it yourself.
And yes it is a foam just like your beloved spray foam.
Basically you clean the concrete buy a bag of cement mix it up and dump it on top finish it yourself.
Lifting a sunken slab may be necessary to level the surface.
Hack to fix sunken concrete.
Geolift works for driveways sidewalks patios garage floors even pool decks.
Polyfoam is stronger and longer lasting than traditional mudjacking.
Injection holes are strategically drilled into the concrete slab s that requires lifting.
You should also get a steel.
The first step is to drill holes in the problem concrete.
Use the brick chisel and sledgehammer to undercut any edges of the sunken concrete as necessary.
Place the concrete into a grout bag and inject it into the holes filling them up to the level of the slab s surface.
Otherwise you could crack the concrete.
You can avoid this expense if you do it yourself with the help of a jacking pump which can raise the concrete slab to the needed level.
With a concrete drill or masonry bit drill small holes into the sunken area and slowly pour a thin mixture of cement into the holes.
Hiring a professional service to lift or jack up the slab can be costly.
Geolift works in three steps.
Foam jacking also known as polyfoam or polyjacking is a modern version of mudjacking that levels concrete slabs in a less invasive way.
That ll allow the sunken slab to lift up.