Owning or renting a commercial building can be a rewarding and satisfying experience, whether you rent your commercial space to various businesses or have employees working inside your building. Just like maintaining a positive company culture is crucial to your overall business, so is maintaining a comfortable working environment. You provide your employees with a comfortable working space with air conditioning in the summer and warm air during the cold months, the best equipment to complete their work, and a cozy office that inspires creativity.
Aside from creating a comfortable working environment, you strive to keep costs down, opting for energy-efficient products throughout your commercial building. Though you try to reduce operating costs, did you know that any uneven concrete in your commercial building can hinder energy efficiency? Continue reading to discover why uneven concrete reduces energy efficiency and how polyjacking can enhance energy efficiency in commercial buildings.
How Unlevel Concrete Decreases Energy Efficiency
Swapping incandescent for LEDs, purchasing Energy Star-certified products for your business, and upgrading HVAC equipment are all great ways to improve energy efficiency in your commercial building. Whether you rent space to other companies or run your business from it, commercial buildings can consume a lot of energy, so improving them is a great way to reduce your monthly expenses and carbon footprint.
So how does something like cracked or unlevel concrete contribute to decreased energy efficiency? For one, cracked concrete allows moisture to seep into the crack and the surrounding area inside the building, whether in the walls, floors, or other areas of the commercial space. This will affect your insulation’s performance, making your HVAC system work harder to warm or cool your building. Therefore, concrete cracks decrease energy efficiency.
Next, unlevel concrete can contribute to air leaks, allowing outside air to enter your building and inside air to escape. Kansas City summers are scorching hot, and winters often have weather below freezing, forcing your HVAC system to work in overdrive to maintain a comfortable temperature.
Though unlevel concrete decreases energy efficiency, there are a few things you can do to repair unlevel concrete. All of us at Pro Polyjacking recommend you avoid DIY concrete leveling because of the dangers and risks, and instead recommend polyjacking to improve energy efficiency.
How Polyjacking Improves Energy Efficiency
Polyjacking is the most permanent concrete leveling technique, which fixes unlevel and cracked concrete while stabilizing the soil underneath to ensure it’ll stay lifted. Polyjacking not only adds curb appeal but also improves energy efficiency. How?
Reduces Air Leaks
We mentioned earlier that cracked and unlevel concrete contributes to air leaks, allowing inside air to escape and outside air to enter your building. Polyjacking reduces these air leaks, keeping the cool, air-conditioned, and warm, cozy air inside your building, and prevents outside air from entering your building through concrete cracks.
Reduces Energy Bills
Air leaks cause a spike in energy bills, causing your HVAC system to work in overdrive to heat or cool a commercial space, especially during the hot summer months and frigid winters here in Kansas City. Our weather can be unpredictable, but your commercial building energy bills don’t need to be – polyjacking reduces energy bills by sealing air leaks at cracked or unlevel concrete sites.
Prevents Cracks
Has part of your walkway or foundation started to sink or become uneven in certain parts around your commercial building? Shifting soil around a foundation or walkway, the wrong concrete strength, or other issues with pouring concrete contribute to why concrete cracks. This shift in soil causes unstable ground under the concrete, forcing part of it to sink, eventually resulting in unsightly cracks in your commercial space. Fortunately, polyjacking prevents cracks by raising the concrete to make it level and stabilizing the soil underneath the foundation, walkway, or other concrete structure.
Try Polyjacking for Energy Efficiency with Pro Polyjacking, Kansas City’s Premier Polyjacking Company for Over 30 Years
For polyjacking for commercial and industrial concrete leveling (and residential concrete leveling), trust the pros at Pro Polyjacking. Our process for Polyjacking for commercial spaces stabilizes the soil, lifts concrete, eliminates cracks, and levels your concrete structures, keeping employees and the general public safe while reducing your energy bills. Polyjacking contributes to safe public spaces, making your commercial space a more desirable building when the concrete is level and safer. Whether a B2B or B2C business, you’ll relax knowing your concrete is level and the soil underneath is stable, keeping everyone safer.
We’ve completed thousands of local commercial polyjacking projects, but take a closer look at a recent case study to learn a bit more about the polyjacking process. From our initial assessment to the actual polyurethane injection, we discuss one of our many polyjacking projects we completed for a commercial client.
Cracks, unlevel spots, spalling, and other damages are unsightly, especially if they go unrepaired. Trust the team at Pro Polyjacking in Kansas City for your concrete repair now, regardless of the season. Contact our team for more information about polyjacking for energy efficiency.