What is House Lifting Service (or) Building Lifting service? Why it’s becoming a very hot topic in Chennai in 2020?

As you may be knowing, Infrastructure in and around Chennai has been improving drastically in the past 10 -15 years. Both State and Central Government had invested heavily on infrastructure by building new roads, renovating old roads, enabling basic amenities like water, sewerage, electricity, hospitals, telecommunication networks and commercial business facilitates in both rural and urban areas for a better living condition. Villages that lacked even the basic road or electricity facility are now being converted into software hubs with all kind of modern amenities inbuilt that's making the city's radius expanding steadily in the past 5 years. International Foreign investors are also investing heavily in Indian economy due to better returns on their investments from local business performances and these calls for better commercial amenities around the city.

Generally while constructing a house or building, the property is constructed at an elevation of 3 feet - 4 feet high above the natural earth level. Due to various reasons when the land level is lower than the road level its prudent to increase this height from 5 feet - 7 feet since its natural that the road thickness may be increasing ( at least by 9 - 10 inches) every time when a new road is laid over the old road layer. Sometimes, due to lack of proper sewage infrastructure, the near by waste water or rain water may clog around the house and may enter the ground floor house leading to various adverse situation. This happens especially in low level areas around the Chennai city or areas where houses are built near a lake or water body.

Most of Chennai clients are troubled by road elevation. Especially in older colonies built in south Chennai areas. With development work that happens over the years, houses which were once several feet above the road level sink two to three feet below it. Since, road elevation will continue to happen with time, the houses will continue to sink further leading to abandonment of ground floors or even the whole building.

During monsoon season, the houses, located on slopes, get flooded resulting in water logging that not only causes inconvenience but also cause health issues as it may lead to breeding of mosquitoes and other insects in the area. In fact, the whole family gets disturbed; children suffer, as they have to pump out the accumulated water with buckets, leading to demolition of old houses wasting their hard earned money invested on such houses.

Elevating a house is a slow and tedious process. The entire house, including pillars and piers, have to be lifted evenly. Various construction repairing and renovating firms use different technologies. While some use manually-operated jacks, others rely on hydraulic systems and some use steel girders or beams that go under the property to pull it. Before starting the actual work, a structural investigation of a house is undertaken, which helps in determining mass and stability of the building. This is followed by testing of soil and material used for construction of foundation, pillars and walls.

Simultaneously, an architectural design and building development plan from a professional architect is chalked out to determine the expense, required time for elevation, and the final product. Once the plan is ready, people start digging up the topsoil to approach the foundation of the building, which is then separated from the walls and the pillars. Steel beams or jacks, manual or hydraulic, are used to evenly lift the house to a desired level. An average Indian house may need around 300 jacks to lift and suspend the house in air.

Here, the house or building is suspended in air while a new foundation is constructed beneath it based on the soil condition and structural drawings. This may take 30-45 days for the new foundation to get settled properly before the elevated house is connected with the new foundation with new walls.

Before undertaking the project the age of the building, number of floors and kind of construction need to be thoroughly investigated and examined to avoid any major issues. Presently, based on the latest technologies and machinery around we can elevate houses that are up to 40 -50 years old and having ground plus four floors or less.

We rely on the use of manually-operated jacks, as other techniques like beams and hydraulic jacks don’t seem to work in Chennai soil conditions since most of our buildings are heavier where the weight can’t be sustained on equipment other than manual jacks."

SG Associates provides budget priced building lifting and building leveling services in and around Chennai, Tamil nadu, india in a most efficient and economical manner.

SG Associates provides budget priced building lifting and building leveling services in and around Chennai, Tamil nadu, india in a most efficient and economical manner. Our house lifting , house shifting and house leveling services are considered as highly cost effective and very much tailor made based on the the complexity, severity, suiting time limitations, budget priced and with lots of convenience of our valued customers. Our engineering team is well qualified, fully equipped , organized and works round the clock for meeting our customer’s needs for building lifting services in and around Chennai. We use latest technology coupled with modern equipment to execute our day to day tasks in a most professional and safe manner within the stipulated time lines.

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