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Concrete Leveling in Alamogordo

Polyurethane foam lifts sunken driveways, walks, steps, and patios around Alamogordo and fills the hollows under slabs that haven’t dropped yet. Before any lifting, we track down the storm water or leak that caused it.

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Concrete Lifting & Leveling in Alamogordo

When Sacramento Mountains runoff gets under an Alamogordo slab

Alamogordo sits on gravel and silt that washed out of the canyons on the west face of the Sacramento Mountains. Those canyons are dry most of the year. Then a summer storm hits up high and the runoff heads down toward town. The Tularosa Basin has no river to carry it away, so it spreads out and soaks in wherever it can. Fill that stayed dry for months gets wet all at once, and the driveway or walk on top can drop. Some ground around town also carries gypsum, the mineral the White Sands dunes are made of, and water running through the same spot storm after storm can dissolve it and leave a hollow under the concrete.

Concrete leveling in Alamogordo starts with that water. We look at where the roof, the yard, and the street send it, and show you what we find. The lift itself is the easy part: a few small drill holes, foam pumped underneath to fill any hollow, and the section rises back into line. Turning a downspout or regrading a flower bed can matter as much as the lift, because a slab raised over the same wet spot can settle again.

Typical concrete leveling jobs in Alamogordo

  • Driveway leveling on sloped lots where runoff runs along the edge
  • Sidewalk joints flagged as trip hazards on a home inspection
  • Porch slabs and stoops that dropped at the outer edge
  • RV pads and carport slabs with one corner sunk low
  • Void filling under patios that sound hollow when tapped

What we plan around in Alamogordo

  • Summer storms on the Sacramentos sending runoff downhill toward town
  • Roof drains and yard watering that keep one side of a slab wet
  • Months of dry ground, then one storm that soaks the fill
  • Sloped lots where uphill water runs against the slab edge

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Find the cause

    We look at the slab, how far it dropped, and where the water that softened the ground came from.

  2. Step 2

    Drill

    A few dime-sized holes go through the slab. No saw cuts and no jackhammer.

  3. Step 3

    Lift

    Polyurethane foam goes in under the slab and expands, and we watch the concrete come up as it does.

  4. Step 4

    Patch

    The holes get patched and the area cleaned up. The crew confirms when foot traffic and vehicles can return.

Also serving: La Luz, Boles Acres, High Rolls, Tularosa.

Guides

Worth reading before you call

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Concrete lifting guide

How polyurethane concrete lifting works, from drill to patch

A sunken driveway panel or a patio tipping toward the house can often be raised with foam. Here is how the job goes, how the rise is controlled, and where lifting stops being the answer.

5 min read

Slab support guide

Voids under concrete: signs, causes and fixes

A slab can ride over empty ground for years before it cracks. Here is how to spot a hollow from above, what opens one up in New Mexico soil, and which fix it needs.

5 min read

Concrete lifting guide

Why driveways sink at the garage, and how a lift fixes it

The panel in front of the garage drops more often than any other concrete around a house. Here is what is going on under it, what the lip at the door is telling you, and how a lift brings it back.

5 min read

Concrete Lifting & Leveling in Alamogordo: common questions

Often, yes. A hollow sound usually means the soil under the slab has settled or washed out, so the concrete is spanning a gap with nothing holding it up. Around Alamogordo that tends to happen where runoff keeps running along a slab edge. Filling the void with foam puts support back under the slab before it cracks or drops. We still look for the water, since the gap can open up again if it keeps running there.
Usually, if the section sank and the concrete is still in one piece. We lift the low side until the joint lines up, patch the holes, and there’s no new concrete to wait on while it cures. If a section heaved up instead, foam can’t lower it, and if the concrete is crumbling, replacing it is the better call. We’ll tell you which it is when we look at it, so you know what to tell the buyer.
Yes. We lift slabs in La Luz, Tularosa, High Rolls, and Boles Acres as well as Alamogordo. Up in High Rolls, snowmelt and colder winters add to the water reaching slab edges, and a slab that frost pushed up is one foam can’t lower. Down in the basin it’s mostly storm runoff, roof drains, and yard watering. Send a photo and the address and we’ll go from there.

Need concrete leveling in Alamogordo?

Send a photo of the low spot and tell us where storm water runs on your lot, and we’ll arrange a site visit.

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