Great care is taken when building a home to ensure everything—doors, windows, baseboards, moldings—is straight and flush.
So, if you notice a gap forming between your wood floors and the wall, or your baseboards separating from the wall, it might be a sign of serious structural damage.
And, if it is structural damage, sealing the gaps between the floor and wall will only be a cosmetic fix. The underlying structural damage will remain—and likely worsen—in the meantime.
There are several reasons that a gap might be forming. Perhaps the contractors who built your home were inexperienced. Or maybe your floor joists are rotting due to excess moisture, causing your floors to sag.
Baseboards that are separating from walls are also an early sign of foundation settlement. All homes settle to some extent, usually in the first five years. But if you’re starting to notice warning signs piling up — cracked moldings, windows and doors sticking, cracked brick walls, water damage—it’s likely that it’s time for a foundation repair.
It might be time to pick up the phone and call a foundation repair specialist. At Helitech Waterproofing & Foundation Repair, we offer free consultations and free estimates. We’ll quickly evaluate the damage to your foundation or floor joists and give you an estimate for the cost of the necessary work.
You can take our offer or leave it. There’s no obligation. Just an honest and fair quote of what it’ll take to get your home back into shape.
Sometimes, gaps between wood floors and walls can be caused by floor joists that have been affected by dry rot. Cracks in the foundation or improper ventilation systems can cause excess moisture to build up in the crawl space of your home, causing structural beams and floor joists to rot.
Each home and each foundation are different, so it’s difficult to say which repair will work best for your home. There are three primary methods we can use depending on whether the damage is mainly caused by structural shift or water damage.
We’ll get back to you with a cost-effective solution.
I’m writing this review entirely based on my introduction to the company with Brian Cox and his home visit to perform a quote/sales call. I had two other companies scheduled to come out and do quotes later that week, but I was so impressed with his transparency, thoroughness, and willingness to listen that I was completely sold and canceled their appts. This is how a sales call is supposed to go, sometimes people come out and try to interrupt, rush and slap down a piece of paper and get out. Brian had the emotional intelligence to work w/ me on my level and that makes for an incredible customer experience. He should really be getting paid the big bucks and training other people on the team – I hope that’s the case. Thanks, Brian!
St Ann, MO, USA