Geobear Stabilizes Sheffield Home Foundation and Closes Structural Cracks in Four Hours

Simon Bethell (00:00) It went very, very smoothly indeed. Really good communication. was very happy with everything. Simon Bethell, I live in Sheffield. The problem that we had was that there was some settlement on the bay window at the front of the house which was caused by shrinkage and expansion of clay in the subsoils. was some cracking on the inside, on the plaster work on the inside of the bay at the lower level, and also on the outside there was some brickwork cracking visible on the outside of the property on the two corners of the bay. I sort of... i come from a construction background and so what I was sort of targeting was a solution which wouldn't require extensive excavation below the foundation, so that it was sort of minimizing the amount of work. and I was familiar with the sort of resin injection process. I've heard about geobear before, and so I was very interested in sort of finding out what solution they would offer. that's why I sort of made the inquiry through to them previously. So... I was aware of the fact that the resin injection system obviously is on the subsoils below the foundation, so the areas where there has been shrinkage. that it allows some sort of positive pressure to be applied which would lift the foundation back. Not necessarily getting it back to the original position that it was at when the house was first built, but at least compensating and sort of closing up the cracks on the inside and the outside to lift the foundation. there was one other company that I had considered which offered a similar process. So I sort of went through the whole inquiry process with them as well. So had two comparable quotes and I opted to go with GeoBear, and you were also most competitive on the price as well. so I was very attracted by the 10-year guarantee you offer as well. the fact that it was less intrusive than doing the excavation was something that attracted me to 'That's the solution' and to geobear doing it. I made the first inquiry on the 27th of The work was scheduled for the 21st of October. and it was sort of arranged that the guys, the team would turn up in the morning at 8 o'clock, and they turned up promptly at 8 o'clock and they were completed by 12 o'clock. I'd done the preparation that we'd agreed in advance of removing the block paving. The guys were, if you like, very efficient. They're sort of very good at communicating. provided me with a radio. There's a cellar under my house and there's also access under the floor as well. So I, from the inside, kept an eye on what sort of lift was going on and made sure there wasn't any sort of undue movement. They were on the outside, applying the pressure and doing the drilling. they were done by lunchtime and that was it. I just had to go and reinstate my block paving, so yeah... I'm happy the cracks closed up on the inside and the outside to the sort of degree that I wanted and very happy with geobear. very good to deal with. from the initial inquiry agreeing sort of a technical detail, the money side, paying the deposit, paying the final balance, cleanliness, the way you guys worked... very happy with it.