Geobear Underpinned and Stabilized a Property in Just Four Hours

Paul jackson (00:00) The time it takes to get it done. I mean, the guys were here and within four hours they'd underpinned the property. They were in, and the guys were good, they were very professional. If anything was to go wrong, they had people sitting here, but they monitored the whole property and I felt very confident that they were doing a very good job. So as far as I'm concerned, I would definitely recommend Geobear as a quicker, faster and more ⁓ professional way. Paul jackson (00:27) I'm Paul Jackson, and I live in Cuddinton in Northwich, UK. So I bought a bungalow which has got a conservatory, and a retaining wall on the opposite side. My concern was traditional underpinning with using cement concrete underneath would have been too heavy for the retaining wall; needed to find a solution. I went on the internet, found GeoBear, looked at a I found that their process is quite unintrusive to a certain extent. You've got to prepare for it, the way that they injected the thing building, and lifted it up in some cases, or not as a case maybe, it gave me confidence. This is a house that's got a slope-away garden that goes down 20 foot with a retaining wall six foot behind the conservatory about seven or eight foot away. So to actually put concrete underneath this building, would have put so much strain onto that retaining wall it probably would have ended up collapsing. They actually injected the product underneath, and it wasn't heavy at all, but yet it gave us the ability to underpin the property, and stabilize it, and the guarantees that go with it, as well. I think they were instrumental in a couple of things. First of all, I had a drainage survey done because the resin that they use, if you don't get the drainage done, can leak into there as well. Generally, the most common cause of subsidence is leaking drains, and I had to have that done. They recommended drainage companies. I used them. They work with GeoBear. I think it was about seven weeks, right away through with the drainage companies, and everybody coming on site and finishing the job. Other than doing the drains, because obviously it's going to be done, I had to take the brick work around the building away, which is the patio, because I need to drill through and down into the sub-core. I had to take some flooring up on the inside of the property, the area that I wanted underpinning, so it could monitor all the component parts of the building. But other than that, preparation was very simple really. I would recommend Geobear, and I would say to people is one, it's cheaper. Two, it's certainly not as intrusive as traditional ways of underpinning. Three, the cost is really, really good compared to concrete etc, and the time it takes. If I had underpinned, it probably would have taken me three months.