Retired Engineer Stabilizes Home Subsidence in One Day at One-Third the Cost

If you're thinking of working with GeoBear, I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending them. From the point of contact to completion was seamless. Very professional. Hi, my name is Hubert Garvey. I live in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. I am a retired engineer. I was out mowing the lawn one day and noticed some cracks in the plaster on a corner of my house. So I had a surveyor come in and just to find out what was happening, and he said there was subsidence in that corner and we would have to get the building underpinned in that particular spot. We looked into it a bit more and it turned out that the building needed underpinning. There's two methods were described to me. One is the old-fashioned method where you dig it all out, you take the diggers in, and you underpin it with concrete. Or it was suggested GeoBear were a company that can do it with very minimal invasiveness of the grounds or the area. So I contacted GeoBear and one of their agents came up to survey the house for me. Enda arrived, he surveyed the house. We come in, we sat down. He spent about thirty minutes with me explaining what GeoBear do, how the resin works, and how long it would take. After that, I got a quote from GeoBear within about ten days or so, and we agreed a date. Funnily enough, I went online and I looked at the reviews for GeoBear, and they were all very positive. And as I said, Andy sat me down, he explained the process, that it's actually much better. Not only is it less invasive, but it's actually a better solution to digging out and underpinning with concrete. The company themselves were very, very professional. I had the quote within about ten days. I contacted Enda again. We agreed a particular date. On that day, he had a crew here at eight o'clock in the morning, and I have to say the whole thing went very seamlessly. And by four-thirty that day, the job was completed and the boys were gone home. The quotation itself, I wouldn't have exact numbers, but it probably cost in the region of one third of what a traditional method would have cost. Yes, there was prep work to be done. You had to expose the foundations for two reasons. One is the guys could get to that, but the main reason was to be that you wouldn't puncture any water lines or utility lines coming into the house. So they had to be able to see that there was nothing in the ground that was going to cause a problem. The whole operation impressed me. They were quite flexible with their times as well. So we agreed a date and a time. They could move it one way or the other to suit me. And I have to say, when the guys came here, they were just total gentlemen. It was very, very well done. The only thing I would add, if you are getting it done, you have to leave an area clear for their trucks to be able to get in close to the site. But, I mean, that's part of the game.