Stabilized 20-Year Subsidence Problem in One Day Without Disruptive Underpinning

Daniel Morgan (00:00) Yeah, I highly recommend Geobear and indeed have recommended Geobear to neighbours who suffer from a similar problem because they come across as a large and competent organization who will come and do exactly what they'll say they do with no mess, no rubbish, no excuses. They just come and just sort the problem and that's what they've done for us. Hi there, my name is Daniel Morgan, I live in Wimbledon, South West London, United Kingdom. Before dealing with geobear we had an ongoing problem of subsidence in our house which is on a hill. This went on for the best part of almost 20 years. Occasionally insurers would send someone to measure to monitor cracks but they never actually do anything the cracks were getting so bad we thought we had to take some sort of action. we were after a solution that would basically halt the problem of our house Continuing to fall downhill, as it were. and in particular, were considered the two biggest solutions that we were aware of which is underpinning - a sort of complex construction process involving a lot of hassle, possibly moving out, and a lot of money. Or the possibility of something developed more recently that we'd heard about, is injection technology, resin technology, to stabilize the building from in front, which is where the problems lie. We considered a number of companies. The reason we went with GeoBear was primarily their experience over decades. It wasn't a new company. And they possessed a certain kind of accreditation. You could get a certificate of structural stability. And that was kind of important to us, as after completing this whole process, we wanted something that had something concrete and on the certification side but also the insurance assistance of knowing there was the possibility if something needed redoing in any way we could call that back, and indeed if anything happened to GeoBear the insurance for that validity was valid even beyond them through some sort of industry body. Yeah, I markedly surprised how quick it was. I mean, it took a couple of weeks to set up, and arrange things with the team. But then the people came and surveyed the drain a few days before. And then a team came the day before. And this was all external to expose and uncover the utilities and pipes into the building and so forth, and prepare the work. And then the actual work itself. this big team of six, seven, maybe eight people - I'm not sure - arrived at about eight in the morning and it was all done by late afternoon, by four p.m. The whole thing was done basically within a day.