My son just had a quote done by Groundworks for foundation repair on his house. Does this company have a good rep? The salesman pulled the old 10% discount if he accepted the quote within 24 hours. I recommended getting a couple more quotes, at least. Any anyone know of good quality foundation repair companies?
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Has anyone had a basement radiant heat (in floor hydronic) system installed recently and if so how much did it cost you? We're considering a basement renovation and we don't currently have a slab. Since we need to pour a slab anyway it seems like a comfortable way to heat a basement, but I don't know if a system like this costs $10k or $100k.
My son just had a quote done by Groundworks for foundation repair on his house. Does this company have a good rep? The salesman pulled the old 10% discount if he accepted the quote within 24 hours. I recommended getting a couple more quotes, at least. Any anyone know of good quality foundation repair companies?
For what its worth, Groundworks completely botched remediation work on my inlaws' basement, upsold them on unnecessary solutions that did not work, and it has been near impossible to get in contact with them since. I would stay far away.
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My son just had a quote done by Groundworks for foundation repair on his house. Does this company have a good rep? The salesman pulled the old 10% discount if he accepted the quote within 24 hours. I recommended getting a couple more quotes, at least. Any anyone know of good quality foundation repair companies?
Thought I'd provide an update. After my son got a couple of other companies in to take a look at his issue, let's just say, I won't be recommending Groundworks to anyone.
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I woke up this morning to water coming through the living room ceiling. It is below the master-bath. The bathroom had water on the floor from the jacuzzi tub's shower head which was dripping and turned so it was going on the floor. We previously had a leak when my wife removed the drain stopper plug under the sink to clean and did not tell me and I used the sink. That resulted in a small leak and a spot on the living room ceiling. Once I replaced the plug the ceiling dried and the spot mostly disappeared.
This time the area that is wet is substantially larger. (That's what she said...)
I am tempted to drill a small hole to allow it to drain. Thoughts on that?
Also, does anyone have experience with a company that could come out and assess this and give us an idea of the cost to fix?
I woke up this morning to water coming through the living room ceiling. It is below the master-bath. The bathroom had water on the floor from the jacuzzi tub's shower head which was dripping and turned so it was going on the floor. We previously had a leak when my wife removed the drain stopper plug under the sink to clean and did not tell me and I used the sink. That resulted in a small leak and a spot on the living room ceiling. Once I replaced the plug the ceiling dried and the spot mostly disappeared.
This time the area that is wet is substantially larger. (That's what she said...)
I am tempted to drill a small hole to allow it to drain. Thoughts on that?
Also, does anyone have experience with a company that could come out and assess this and give us an idea of the cost to fix?
Thanks.
You're in insurance land on this one IMO. I'd call them and they'll send out an emergency company to begin to triage and then repair.
I woke up this morning to water coming through the living room ceiling. It is below the master-bath. The bathroom had water on the floor from the jacuzzi tub's shower head which was dripping and turned so it was going on the floor. We previously had a leak when my wife removed the drain stopper plug under the sink to clean and did not tell me and I used the sink. That resulted in a small leak and a spot on the living room ceiling. Once I replaced the plug the ceiling dried and the spot mostly disappeared.
This time the area that is wet is substantially larger. (That's what she said...)
I am tempted to drill a small hole to allow it to drain. Thoughts on that?
Also, does anyone have experience with a company that could come out and assess this and give us an idea of the cost to fix?
Thanks.
Call you insurance company.
This looks like a sudden and accidental release of water. This is something you Homeowners policy should handle.
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Yeah. I did talk to them. Our deductible is $5000, so if I can just get the drywall fixed for less than that, then it makes sense not make a claim. The ceiling texture cost is what I am afraid of. My hope is that if we have to go that route, we can get the whole ceiling done instead of a patch. We have a guy coming to have a look, and he will give us an idea. I don't think it is plumbing. That ####ing jacuzzi tub has been a non-stop headache. I just want to chainsaw the ####ing thing and throw it out the window.
Yeah. I did talk to them. Our deductible is $5000, so if I can just get the drywall fixed for less than that, then it makes sense not make a claim. The ceiling texture cost is what I am afraid of. My hope is that if we have to go that route, we can get the whole ceiling done instead of a patch. We have a guy coming to have a look, and he will give us an idea. I don't think it is plumbing. That ####ing jacuzzi tub has been a non-stop headache. I just want to chainsaw the ####ing thing and throw it out the window.
Thanks for the replies.
My guess is you can have the texture matched fairly closely and it wouldn't be too obvious. Based on the photos, you will need to have some amount of it re-done though.
Famous last words but it's actually not too pricey to get the ceiling textured, even these days. It's a very quick job if they actually know what they're doing.
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Famous last words but it's actually not too pricey to get the ceiling textured, even these days. It's a very quick job if they actually know what they're doing.
Yeah textured ceilings are popular because they're cheap for builders to do. A proper smooth finished ceiling is more expensive. Textured ceilings hide crappy dry wall work.
My guess is you can have the texture matched fairly closely and it wouldn't be too obvious. Based on the photos, you will need to have some amount of it re-done though.
We’ve gone through attempts at matching ceiling texture after getting our polyb removed. It will never get matched perfectly and it will drive you crazy, but eventually you’ll learn to ignore and live with it. Also removing polyb is more destructive to your ceilings and walls than the service companies make it out to be.
That said, if the room is small enough, just get the whole ceiling in the room redone.
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We’ve gone through attempts at matching ceiling texture after getting our polyb removed. It will never get matched perfectly and it will drive you crazy, but eventually you’ll learn to ignore and live with it. Also removing polyb is more destructive to your ceilings and walls than the service companies make it out to be.
That said, if the room is small enough, just get the whole ceiling in the room redone.
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I left out the part about nagging the contractors to do a better job matching it, and you all grow to all hate each other before the end of it. Then afterwards you call in other contractors who tell you that what the first contractors did was about as good as it was going get, short of scraping it all off.
All of that said, I still have no idea why it is so difficult to replicate the same knock-down texture that was done before.
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I woke up this morning to water coming through the living room ceiling. It is below the master-bath. The bathroom had water on the floor from the jacuzzi tub's shower head which was dripping and turned so it was going on the floor. We previously had a leak when my wife removed the drain stopper plug under the sink to clean and did not tell me and I used the sink. That resulted in a small leak and a spot on the living room ceiling. Once I replaced the plug the ceiling dried and the spot mostly disappeared.
This time the area that is wet is substantially larger. (That's what she said...)
I am tempted to drill a small hole to allow it to drain. Thoughts on that?
Also, does anyone have experience with a company that could come out and assess this and give us an idea of the cost to fix?
Thanks.
If no concerns of future leaks (ie: repair/replace/seal off shower head), maybe you could poke a few super small holes to drain, but also get an air mover to dry it out ASAP to reduce sagging and limit/slow mold growth. Don't need a drill, just a pin. It should be soft. Then use killz or other spray options to try and get the color to revert. Don't cut it out if possible. Worst case a few hundred dollar gamble didn't pay off.
Like Wormius, I too had huge patches after replacing poly B. After the headache of many options to remove popcorn ceiling but seemingly few options to redo it for a reasonable price/inconvenience, I legit went with, "#### it. No one looks up if the color sorta matches. Texture doesn't really matter."
A reasonable post poly B texture repair doesn't make sense for me due to how messy and inconvenient it'll be, difficulty to match and price of repair. It'll make more sense to redo all the texture on the ceiling in the future in a reno.
I recommended getting a couple more quotes, at least. Any anyone know of good quality foundation repair companies?
