Concrete fails in two different ways and they need two different answers. A slab that has cracked, spalled, pitted, or flaked has a surface and material problem: water found a way in, a joint stopped absorbing movement, road salt or pool chemistry attacked the top layer, or the slab shrank as it cured and opened a line. Serving Long Beach and the surrounding Los Angeles County.
A local specialist will evaluate your foundation, walk you through the findings, and send a clear estimate. No cost, no pressure.
Irvine office
9891 Irvine Center Dr
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone
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Concrete Repair in Long Beach
Long Beach sits in Los Angeles County, California. Roughly 170,174 households sit here, home to about 462,293 people. Detached single family houses number 73,092, and 41 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied.
The crew that covers Long Beach works out of our Irvine office, 27 miles away, about 35 minutes on the road. Los Angeles County carries 1,726,365 detached single family homes in total, 46 percent owner occupied. That is about 5 percent of every housing unit in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County holds about 9,848,406 people and 3,624,084 housing units in total. Building peaked in the 1950s at 36,729 homes, which is why the median year built sits at 1958. The survey reports a median home value of $709,700 and a median household income of $78,995. Owners hold 69,167 of the occupied homes, renters the other 101,007. 144,431 of those homes were finished before 1980, 85 percent of everything standing.
Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.
What we fix
A low shrink swell rating on rock across Los Angeles County means seasonal swelling is not the story. What moves a foundation on ground like this is loading, drainage and the first time a dry layer gets properly wet.
What this looks likeThe pre 1980 stock in Long Beach runs to 144,431 homes, which is where we most often find drainage that was never engineered.
What this looks likeThe typical Long Beach house dates to 1958, old enough that the ground under it has been through every wet spring and dry summer since.
What this looks likeLocal conditions
A city level sample here returns urban fill, not a natural series. Widen it to Los Angeles County and the USDA survey reads Millsholm family at about 9 percent of the survey, with Trigo family and Rock outcrop alongside it. Broken down by texture it is 14 percent clay and 16 percent sand. The weighted linear extensibility figure, which is how much the soil changes volume between wet and dry, sits at 2.58 percent, a low shrink swell rating.
Most of what we walk into here was built in the 1950s, 36,729 homes, around a median build year of 1958. Pre 1980 construction accounts for 144,431 homes here, and that is the group where original drainage is usually the story. 42 percent of the housing here, 71,891 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. 72 percent of owner occupied homes here carry a mortgage, which is usually why a lender or an appraiser is the first to ask about a crack.
Soil survey: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (SSURGO), sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov.
"Across Los Angeles County the mapped soil is rock, rated low for shrink swell. Concrete repair here is not generic. It has to match what the ground is doing."
Our approach
A slab that has dropped out of level has a soil problem, which is a concrete leveling question rather than a concrete repair one. This silo is the first kind, and the free evaluation sorts your concrete into one bin or the other before anyone quotes anything. Most concrete repair work starts with water, because water is what turns a cosmetic line into a structural one.
A hairline crack that stays dry can sit there for years. The same crack fed by a downspout or a sprinkler carries water to the soil below, and the freeze, the swell, and the washout that follow widen it every season. That is why routing and sealing a crack properly is worth more than it looks, why a sealed joint is the cheapest repair on this site, and why we look at drainage on every visit rather than only at the concrete.
We repair driveways, walkways, patios, pool decks, garage floors, steps, and commercial flatwork across California, Arizona, and Nevada. Surface damage comes with its own vocabulary, and the concrete repair warning signs page walks through the patterns we see most: cracks that widen, expansion joints that have given up, pitting and flaking where the top layer scaled away, and the gaps that open where a slab meets a wall. Each of them points at one of the concrete repair methods we actually use, and none of them points at demolition by default.
Dalinghaus Foundation Repair has completed more than 2,000 projects across the three states since brothers Brian and Brad Dalinghaus founded the company in 2011. Every concrete project starts with a free evaluation: we measure how far the slab has moved, read what the damage pattern is telling us, and put the findings and the options in writing whether or not you hire us, including the option to seal it and watch it for a season.
What we install
Where we work
Port of Long Beach, Bixby Knolls, Los Altos, North Long Beach and Plaza are all city addresses, which means the same crew, the same schedule and the same free evaluation as anywhere else in town.
Problem signs
The crew
The same company schedules the evaluation, runs the install, and answers a warranty call later.
Google reviews
Dalinghaus was hired to stabilize 4 tilt up panels that were sinking. They did a great job! The poly injection was clean and exactly as described.
Dillion and Julian did an amazing job on my foundation. They are very professional and answered all my questions and made adjustments as requested.
A property I manage had some minor cement work needed to be done. The crew, Dillon & Lance were working on the property. They were quick, efficient, and went above and beyond on the job. The whole process was smooth and easy from getting an estimate to scheduling work and on time. Would recommend highly.
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Long Beach is worked out of our Irvine, CA office. It is 27 miles from the middle of town, about 35 minutes on the road. The office is at 9891 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine, CA 92618.
Also served from Irvine
A Dalinghaus specialist evaluates your foundation in Long Beach, takes floor elevation measurements, walks you through what they found, and sends a clear itemized repair estimate. No pressure.
A straightforward path from free evaluation to completed repairs.
A specialist walks the structure, takes floor elevation measurements, and explains the failure mode.
Method, scope, and pricing, in writing. Warranty terms for your specific repair are spelled out in the estimate.
A Dalinghaus crew completes the installation with the site left cleaner than we found it.
Every home is different, so every estimate is written for the home in front of us. A free on site evaluation gives you a written estimate that reflects your specific scope, access, and conditions.
Concrete Repair pricing varies with depth, load, access, and soil. Typical residential jobs are estimated during the free on-site evaluation, and the written estimate spells out the method, scope and price. If site conditions change the work, the change is written and signed before it goes ahead.
If a home has purely cosmetic cracks with no structural movement, no door or window racking, and no floor slope, we will say so during the evaluation and recommend you wait or address the underlying cause first. If we cannot fix it right, we will not sell you a fix.
Dalinghaus Foundation Repair is locally owned and operated, with crews dedicated exclusively to foundation, concrete, and crawl space work across California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Foundation repair, concrete leveling, and crawl space repair are our entire focus. Not a sideline.
More than 2,000 projects on the clay and desert soils of California, Arizona, and Nevada since 2011.
CSLB License #983851 in California, ROC #330307 in Arizona, and License #0089738 in Nevada. Look us up with the state before we ever set foot on your property.
Warranty terms come in writing with every proposal, and the terms that apply to your job are stated in that job's paperwork. Ask your project specialist during the free evaluation.
A 4.9-star average across Google, with verified reviews from the homeowners we work for.
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