Style & Finishing Touches
Fixing structural movement does not mean sacrificing your home’s exterior curb appeal. Integrating functional grading solutions into your landscape design protects your foundation while elevating your property value.
Decorative Dry Creek Beds and Swales: Transform drainage swales into striking landscape features by lining surface channels with 2-inch to 6-inch river pebbles, smooth Delaware stones, and localized boulders. This directs heavy surface water safely away from your foundation while creating a dynamic natural garden border.
Clean Foundation Parging Coats: Conceal historic, repaired masonry cracks along exposed exterior stem walls by applying a fresh 1/4-inch coat of fiber-reinforced parge mortar. A crisp, smooth parge finish creates a uniform, modern concrete baseline that sharpens your siding’s visual appeal.
Modern French Drain Surrounds: If you install exterior subsurface French drains, top the drainage trenches with decorative slate gravel or Mexican beach pebbles rather than bare topsoil. This allows rapid surface water percolation while delivering a clean architectural aesthetic around your foundation perimeter.
Interior Cosmetic Refinishing: After hydraulic piers or structural carbon-fiber straps stabilize your home, restore your living spaces. Patch drywall fractures using fiberglass mesh tape and flexible setting-type joint compound; seal historic moisture stains with an oil-based stain-blocking primer before applying fresh wall paint to hide past movement seamlessly.
