BEST BASEMENT LOWERING SERVICES IN TORONTO
Basement Lowering, Underpinning, Crawl Space, and Basement Walkout Contractors!
What is Basement Lowering?
Basement lowering is the process to increase your living space inside your home. There are multiple techniques that can be used to lower your basement in Toronto. Choosing the correct basement lowering technique is vital for maintaining the integrity of a home's foundation. At Nusite Contractors, we use a variety of guidelines to determine the safest basement-lowering method for the foundation of your Toronto home.
A few of the basement lowering guidelines that Nusite follows include:
-
The Structural Safety of your Home and its Foundation.
-
The Homeowners Basement Lowering Preference (Underpinning, Benching, Digging Crawl Space etc.).
-
The Homeowners Basement Lowering Budget.
-
The Overall Basement Lowering Goals (Height, Access, Waterproofing Methods, Foundation Repair, etc.).
Basement Lowering in Ontario (also called Underpinning or Benching) is a process that can significantly increase the value of your home. Underpinning and Benching adds functional living space to your basement.
Residential basement lowering is intended to lower your basement slab or crawl space slab and convert a 5ft, 6ft, or 7ft high basement into an area that clears 9ft.
Underpinning your home. Will Turn Your Basement into a Fun and Functional Space!
With the high property costs and the limited amount of real-estate in Toronto, basement lowering (Underpinning) becomes an attractive and cost-effective way to increase functional living space in your home. A key benefit to basement lowering is the minimal red tape compared to the expansion of a Toronto home.
Why does Basement Lowering, Underpinning or Benching have less "Red Tape"?
Underpinning has less red tape because basement lowering is considered an improvement to the existing structure, and not an addition to a home.
Nusite Contractors is Toronto's Basement Lowering Company!
BASEMENT LOWERING SERVICES
Bench Footings & Underpinning
DIGGING CRAWL SPACE SERVICES
Digging out a crawl space is another basement-lowering method that adds living space to your home. This is by far the most expensive underpinning in residential construction.
This underpinning process turns a small crawl space into a full-height basement.
The digging crawl space underpinning process involves the removal of your basement floor and the excavation to your new basement height.
Once the lowered space is clear of debris, your foundation walls will be extended and strengthend, creating a functional and livable basement.
crawl space is double or sometimes triple the amount of excavation and underpinning compared to the standard 2 feet underpinning.
BENCH FOOTING SERVICES
The bench footings basement lowering method is a great option when underpinning is not possible.
Bench footings are installed by digging down in from of the internal foundation wall until you land just above the existing foundation footings. (also called the 7/10) At that point, our team builds a "bench" between the foundation wall and the basement floor, creating foundation wall strength, as well as increased basement height.
Basement Lowering and bench footing methods can convert a 5ft, 6ft, or 7ft high basement into a space over 9ft.
Benching can take about 30 working days to produce from start to finish.
