Home Owners

Property Investors find Geobear Foundation Repair to be a Secret Weapon Our Client Our customers were professionals at property investment and renovations. They buy distressed homes, update them by performing repairs and remodels, and sell the properties at a profit. This time, the home they were considering had substantial foundation issues. While they negotiated the […]

San Clemente Investor Protects Profit on Residential Home Resale Local real estate investor completes home repairs in a fraction of the time and preserves project profitability by choosing Geobear. Our Client Our customer, Robert, is a real estate investor who recently purchased a San Clemente home to repair, improve, and resell. After pulling up the […]

Homeowner Addresses Sinking Foundation and Restores Soil Load-Bearing Capacity Our Client This two story home in the City of Orange, CA was experiencing some noticeable issues with their guest bedroom. Two years ago, the homeowners noticed sloping in their guest bedroom floor. Gradually, the problem worsened and separation formed between their walls and the floor. […]

Homeowner Stabilizes Clay Soil Shrinkage Issues in Days Not Weeks with Less Cost and No Disruption Our Client Our client had originally noticed cracking in his home about five years ago. Over time, he began to notice it was getting progressively worse. When the signs of cracking expanded along the entire left side of his […]

Homeowner Stabilizes Clay Soil Shrinkage Issues in Days Not Weeks with Less Cost and No Disruption Our Client Our customer recently bought a home in Fountain Hills and was looking forward to remodeling his new property. While beginning the remodel, he began pulling up carpets and tile. As he did, he discovered large cracks in […]

LA County Homeowner Stabilizes Foundation Quickly and Easily to Fix Subsidence Cracks in His New Home Our Client Our customer and his family were renovating their recently purchased home in Costa Mesa, CA when they noticed some problems. When tearing up the existing carpets and flooring they noticed cracking in their floors. Over time, some […]

On Hilary Road in East Acton, a vacant council house was in dire need of repair and stabilisation due to subsidence at the front and rear of the property. Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council called in Geobear to treat the subsidence quickly and efficiently so that people could be homed in the property as […]

At a council house in West London, a leaking drain had caused subsidence at the rear of the property. With a young family living inside, the issue needed to be rectified as soon as possible with minimum disruption for the tenants. Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council used Geobear’s innovative solution to fix the subsidence in […]

A homeowner in Leeds, UK contacted Geobear to discuss an issue with an extension built onto the side of their property. The one storey extension was built on standard raft foundations adjacent to the perimeter wall of the house. After a number of years small cracks started to appear on the internal walls where the […]

Geobear were on hand recently to repair a sinking floor at a residential property in the North of England. The owner had witnessed her floor gradually sink over the years and as the insurers would not cover it her engineer recommended going straight to Geobear. We provided a solution to stabilise the ground beneath the […]

A customer was experiencing difficulties with a 3 bedroom semi-detached house based in Towcester, Northamptonshire Due to the geology of the ground and large trees in close proximity to the house the property had become subject to subsidence. The client approached their insurance company who arranged for the movement to be monitored by Structural Engineers […]

A property in Nottinghamshire had experienced some major subsidence problems over the course of a number of years. Extensive cracks were showing along the brick work on the exterior of the house and throughout the inside of the property. As with many instances of subsidence, the full impact is much more pronounced when interior plasterboard […]

Background A harsh cold spell of weather in the UK was not a problem for Geobear as we stabilised an eight bedroom home in East Sussex. The building had an historic settlement issue;  several potential buyers of the property contacted Geobear looking for a solution. When our client acquired the property we conducted a full […]

Here’s a great example of how we can lift a floor very quickly – this video is being taken whilst expansive resin is being injected beneath the concrete slab.  This footage was actually in a new build property that was not occupied, if we work in an occupied property, we’d simply pull back the carpet […]

SUBSIDENCE SOLUTION FOR COUNCIL PROPERTY A council owned block of flats in Birmingham was suffering from subsidence, clearly illustrated by the cracking visible in the outer walls. Geobear were contacted to provide a solution to the problem; crucially an answer was required that would stop the subsidence and also allow residents to stay in their […]

BACKGROUND When a customer, Mr Agar,  from Leeds noticed his brick extension was moving away from the house, he wanted someone to wave a magic wand to stop it. He was desperate. The crack on the wall had got so big that he could no longer ignore it. The brick extension had been there since […]