Our soil is moist. Our soil is loamy. And if a town’s soil has ever been blessed with ample drainage, then my goodness, has ours ever.
That’s why our corner of mesic prairie is named after the Garden of God. Crops love Eden Prairie’s soil. Crops in other places only wish they could grow here.
But do you know why classical depictions of Eden never include driveways, sidewalks, or patios? It’s because super-arable land like our own is anathema to poured concrete. The second a big, heavy concrete slab senses all that moisture, loam and drainage beneath, it says Ah! I think I’ll settle right in.
So what do you do? Just stand by twiddling your thumbs while your valuable real estate gets swallowed up by the ground, and becomes increasingly unsightly and dangerous in the process?
No.
Briefly remedy the problem by paying some goofball to inject a gargantuan blob of toxic foam directly into your little piece of Eden?
NO! (And eww.)
Engage the unparalleled expertise of Concrete Lifting, Inc., and take confidence that the locally owned business’s proprietary, environmentally friendly aggregate jacking method will restore your concrete to its original grade, whilst paying as little as one-third what you would have on foamjacking – which, to reiterate, is bad?
“Yes,” said Kyle Clark, proprietor of Concrete Lifting, Inc. “Aggregate jacking. Not mudjacking, which invariably turns into useless mush that washes away. Definitely not foamjacking, which totally fails to strengthen and stabilize the earth beneath the slab, and may also be carcinogenic. I’m talking about aggregate jacking, which lifts concrete and keeps it that way through the power of quartz.”
Quartz (ˈkwȯrts), n. a hard, durable, and naturally abundant mineral composed of silicon and oxygen (SiO2). Those who stayed awake during science class see the word “silicon” and say Ah! The stuff glass is made of!
“That’s exactly why I use it,” explained Kyle. “In addition to limestone and granite fragments, my one-of-a-kind aggregate contains one of the strongest minerals known to man. All those spiky, abrasive quartz crystals allow the mix to interlock, compact, and set the slab back to its original grade in one day or less.
“There’s nothing inside the aggregate that doesn’t already exist within soil. Better yet, Concrete Lifting, Inc. has recently begun recycling high-grade quartz provided by one of the world’s largest countertop manufacturers. That makes the process just as environmentally conscious as it is effective.”
NOT JUST LIFTING THE EARTH. CHANGING THE WORLD!
“My Uncle Wes started working with the original owner of Concrete Lifting, Inc. back in the seventies,” recounted Kyle. “He bought the company not long after, and quickly realized its greatest shortcoming. The equipment stored way too little material to handle the volume of work.
“He sketched out the solution on a paper plate: a little machine that hooked up to a FourTrax, held additional material, and dramatically reduced the time needed for refills.
“As business took off, Uncle Wes continually improved his technology. He eventually replaced his mixer truck with a more economical custom build, increasing aggregate capacity to 1.5 cubic yards as a result. The modern version of that machine holds 2 cubic yards, which gives me the freedom to do three or four typical jobs in between refills.
“I’m still learning the machinery side of the business from the master. You’ll often find us working together at the shop on our family land in Elko, where we have amassed the mills, lathes, and CNC plasma cutter we need to manufacture all of the hinges, shackles, suspensions, pumps, and other intricate parts that go into Uncle Wes’s remarkable invention.
“Our goal isn’t just to start mass producing the ultimate concrete lifting system. We want to lease and sell these groundbreaking – or, more accurately, groundfixing – machines to other contractors throughout the country. We want to set up loading stations where they can easily stock up on fresh aggregate as well. We also want to share the expertise they’ll need to deliver the same perfect results as Concrete Lifting, Inc. Creating the ideal pressure and consistency requires knowledge, strategy, precision, and, at times, acrobatics. We’ll teach our partners everything they must know to succeed.
“They’ll stand in stark contrast to our primary competition: foamjackers, who are so out of it that they actually believe their light, flimsy material’s inability to compact underlying earth is a good thing. I see their ‘work’ all the time, because I’m hired so often to fix it.
“Incidentally, I encounter Uncle Wes’s previous work pretty frequently, too – not because it needs fixing, but because projects Concrete Lifting, Inc. completed over forty years ago are still in pristine shape to this day.”
Don’t settle for settled concrete. Concrete Lifting, Inc. makes the grade! Call (952) 250-7686 today to hire a true pioneer in the concrete raising industry, or visit ConcreteLiftingInc.com to request your free estimate.
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