If you enjoy spending time outdoors or have children or pets you most likely frequent local parks, explore downtown near Union Station, and do plenty of outdoor activities. While your children are playing on the playground or your family is walking around downtown Kansas City by sidewalks, you probably never stop to think about the structural integrity of the concrete you’re playing or walking on. 

All concrete will shift – it’s just a natural part of settling as the soil underneath and around it shifts. Many things can cause soil to shift and concrete to become unlevel and crack, like soil erosion, summer heat, issues with pouring the concrete and curing it, imprecise measurements for the mixture, and more.

Let’s learn why polyjacking for municipal projects like parks and sidewalks is important and how it can keep your family and loved ones safer.

Why Choose Polyjacking for Municipal Projects?

There are plenty of reasons to choose polyjacking for municipal projects like parks, playgrounds, sidewalks, gazebos, and more. Below are some of the many reasons why polyjacking is the best option: 

It Reduces Trips/Falls

Keeping parkgoers, customers, the general public, and loved ones safe is paramount, more important than anything else. Parkgoers, families exploring downtown, and those at the playground often have children and elderly in attendance, so keeping the concrete level in these public places is important. Unlevel concrete and cracked concrete are major hazards to those who need assistance walking, young children, the handicapped, and the average person who can easily trip and fall when concrete is unlevel. There are often gaps and a piece of concrete lower than the other makes for easy trips/falls for the public.

Choosing polyjacking for municipal projects keeps the general public and loved ones safer by reducing the chance for tips/falls to happen at your park, business, playground, or other municipal areas.

Keeps Children Safer on Playgrounds

Children love spending an afternoon at the park, and, in Kansas City, we have plenty to choose from! Some have multiple playscapes for all ages while others have more complex obstacles. When children (and adults!) play at a playground, it’s important to take every measure to keep them safe. All concrete on or near a playground should be level. Failing to keep the concrete level at a playground puts kids at risk of trips/falls, boo-boos, and serious injuries.

Polyjacking a playground is an excellent idea that will keep parkgoers safe indefinitely. Because polyjacking lifts concrete with a polyurethane foam, the soil beneath the concrete is fortified, never again causing sinks or cracks in concrete if it was fixed using polyjacking.

There’s No Mess

Did you know that plenty of other concrete leveling techniques and concrete replacement leave a mess that can harm the environment? Unlike polyjacking which has no mess, concrete leveling alternatives like mudjacking require large holes to be drilled in the concrete, creating an eyesore and a mess to deal with. Likewise, a concrete replacement job is messy, with debris that needs to be hauled away and disposed of.

Polyjacking has no mess! The tiny holes we drill to inject our polyurethane foam underneath concrete are barely noticeable and polyurethane foam is inert, so it’ll never seep out or harm the environment.

Lasts a Lifetime

Another great reason to choose polyjacking is that it’s the only permanent concrete leveling technique. Others are short-term and act more like a band-aid to cover up a bigger issue. Mudjacking needs to be redone multiple times, costing you more in the long run. Polyjacking lasts a lifetime, never requiring maintenance or to be redone. It is extremely beneficial when the city relies on taxes, grants, fundraising, or donations to maintain a municipal area. 

Why Polyjack & Not Mudjack?

If you’ve researched how to level unlevel concrete, you’ve probably seen “mudjacking” companies listed. While it is a good short-term solution to level concrete, it’s not as beneficial as polyjacking. Below are some cons of mudjacking:

• Bigger drill holes
• The materials won’t hold up for long since they can wash away from water
• It takes longer to dry
• Relies on underlying soils for support
• Much heavier than polyurethane foam (100 lbs per cubic foot vs. 2-4 lbs per cubic foot for polyurethane foam)
• It costs more in the long run since it needs to be repeated so often

Polyjacking offers many benefits that mudjacking can’t. From adding curb appeal to your home or business, fortifying the soil underneath the concrete, weighing less, being the most permanent solution for leveling concrete, and being water resistant, polyjacking is the best solution for concrete leveling.

Trust Pro Polyjacking With Your Concrete Repair

To repair unlevel or cracked concrete and be environmentally conscious, consider polyjacking from Pro Polyjacking. Our polyjacking process stabilizes the soil and, as a result, lifts concrete to fix cracks and level the patio, driveway, sidewalk, or foundation.

Our process is simple, starting with a free assessment and complimentary quote for our concrete leveling service. We’ll discuss your concerns and issues and a solution and quote for our polyjacking service. Once you accept and we get you on the schedule, we’ll arrive timely and professionally. We’ll create the injection site by drilling tiny holes into the concrete and injecting our polyurethane foam under the damaged concrete. The result is lifted concrete without any gaps and stabilized soil underneath. We also patch up our injection sights so they’re even less noticeable.

Foundation cracks, unlevel driveways, spalling sidewalks, and other damages are unsightly and dangerous, especially if they’re on a commercial building you own or your home. Trust the professionals at Pro Polyjacking in Kansas City for your concrete repair. Contact the team at Pro Polyjacking for more information about our concrete repair service!