The concrete that’s around your property can have an impact on your home as a whole as well. If you’re looking for more information about external concrete’s impact on your home, here are a few of the things it can change.
Generalized Structural Integrity
In general, your external concrete’s integrity has a direct link to the structural integrity of your home. Your home should have the best structural integrity possible, and that means maximizing your structural integrity overall. This can include the concrete structures that are all around your home, like your sidewalk, not just the concrete structures inside your home.
Another thing to pay attention to is the way the dirt around your home’s concrete and structure moves and changes with the concrete movement. Dirt movement can be extreme and can lead to all sorts of stability concerns. It’s one of the reasons that external concrete changes can have such an impact on your home’s stability.
Street Creep
Street creep holds a huge potential for concern. This happens when your home’s driveway starts to inch forward, pushing up against your home’s foundation. Because the driveway concrete can be just as strong as the home’s general foundation concrete, street creep can cause serious problems for your home’s foundation.
Street creep tends to be a problem that many homes experience. There are many ways street creep can occur and it often has to do with a problem on the part of the street, which you can’t change. However, with the right stabilization, you can ensure that street creep doesn’t have a huge impact on your home’s structural stability.