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 you may need to fill the gap between the floor and wall to prevent further issues.
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.
Addressing these gaps and contacting baseboard repair contractors is crucial for preventing further structural damage.
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.
