Our structural engineer inspection for the owner of this Wellington Point house found;

• Gradual footing settlements were slowly progressing, year after year, and seriously damaging the house.

• The cause could be traced back decades to when the house was built.

• The original site preparation included cutting and filling, which had pushed loose landfill to one side of the building platform, and the house footings were not dug deep enough to properly support the house on one side.

• The original site clearing had involved removal of very large trees, and this had disturbed the soil to considerable depth.

Our structural engineer report found that the best way to stabilise and fix the house was with conventional, reliable underpinning utilising reinforced concrete piers.

Other methods such as steel screw piers were more expensive, and urethane resin was not applicable in this case.

Mehrtens Underpinning & Construction did brilliant work with the underpinning, and all of the building repairs were included in their scope.