Increasing Your Home's Value With House Underpinning

Are you making plans to put your home up for sale? Professional home underpinning for your basement can do so much to increase your home's value. Potential homeowners are smart and have become increasingly well-informed. They know precisely what value-additions to look for, and house underpinning adds value in the following ways.

Improved Structural Integrity

Whatever the reason for house underpinning, the bottom line remains that the process improves the structural integrity of your home. Your foundation and the basement may start to fail due to a wide range of factors including poor workmanship, extreme weather and of, course, age. Home underpinning will strengthen this foundation and avoid potential structural problems.

Increased Square Footage

With home underpinning, you can add some height to your low-ceiling basement, transforming it into a space that you can use in different ways. The basement can become a home office or a play and entertainment lounge. Buyers will see the potential to convert your basement into a usable space when deciding whether or not to buy.

Again, the new owners can always spruce up the new basement and rent it out. Buyers will be more willing to give you a generous offer for the house, knowing that they will be getting some rental income every month.

Fixing Hidden Electrical and Plumbing Problems

Removing a part of your home's basement and foundation during house underpinning may reveal your property's plumbing network and utility lines. This presents a perfect opportunity to inspect this infrastructure and fix any problems found.

Ensure that you have a professional inspect any such repair work and prepare a report on the same. Some buyers may need to have a look at the report, in addition to scheduling another survey.

Improved Air Quality

Water seepage can cause cracks and leaks in the foundation, necessitating house underpinning. This water seepage can adversely affect air quality in your home thanks to the lingering musty odour and the growth of mould.

Both are complete turn-offs for potential home buyers. Identifying and resolving plumbing and related problems that cause this seepage during underpinning will help to improve air quality.

House underpinning can transform your basement by increasing its square footage. The process also strengthens your home's structural integrity, not to mention providing an opportunity to resolve various repair problems. These are all considerations that potential homebuyers will look at, and should help to sell your home faster, and at a good price.

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