Service Area · New Hamburg
Foundation Repair in New Hamburg
Structural foundation repair for New Hamburg, Baden and the rest of Wilmot Township, west of Kitchener along Highway 7/8.
New Hamburg grew up around the mills on the Nith River, and the older part of town — the streets near the river, Huron Street, Peel Street and the blocks around the downtown — is brick and frame housing from the late 1800s and early 1900s on rubble-stone foundations. The Nith floods, and the lots close to it have been wet under the house many times over the years, which is hard on lime mortar and on the wood sills and joist ends sitting on the stone. The work there is repointing, rebuilding bulged sections, and replacing rotten sills with the floor supported. Anything near the river is in the Grand River Conservation Authority's regulated area and excavation needs their permit. Away from the river, New Hamburg and Baden have post-war bungalows on concrete block, and the newer subdivisions on the edges of both towns are on poured concrete over graded farmland. Block walls in the clay pockets here bow the same way they do in Kitchener, and poured foundations on fill settle at a corner. Wilmot Township issues the building permits, and its rules on additional dwelling units apply if a low century basement is being underpinned for a second unit. New Hamburg is twenty minutes from Kitchener on Highway 7/8, and travel is built into the written quote from the start.
Foundation Repair services in New Hamburg
- Structural Crack Repair & Epoxy Injection
- Bowing & Leaning Wall Stabilization
- Underpinning & Basement Lowering
- Block & Stone Foundation Repair
- Settlement Repair & Piering
Frequently asked questions
Do you charge more to work outside Kitchener?
Not inside the city. For Waterloo, Cambridge, Breslau, New Hamburg and the townships, travel is built into the written quote up front rather than added afterwards. Structural work is not a quick visit, so the drive is a small part of it.
Are foundations different in Waterloo and Cambridge than in Kitchener?
Somewhat. Parts of Waterloo sit on the sand and gravel of the Waterloo Moraine, which drains well and settles less than Kitchener clay, though the older stone foundations uptown have the same mortar and sill problems. Galt in Cambridge has more cut-stone century foundations than anywhere else in the Region, and Preston and Hespeler have the same block-in-clay walls as Kitchener's east side. The methods are the same; the mix of jobs is different.
Serving Kitchener and surrounding areas. Contact us for a no-obligation quote specific to your property.