Orem was built on the old Provo Bench, where homes sit on fine Lake Bonneville silts and expansive clays that swell with water and shrink as they dry. Mix in irrigation-heavy yards and freeze-thaw winters, and slabs across Orem start to sink and crack. We raise and stabilize that concrete back into place — from mid-century homes near State Street to newer builds out toward Vineyard.
Before-and-after examples of sunken concrete raised with high-density polyurethane foam — the same process and material we bring to Orem.
Illustrative example. Individual results vary.
Orem's roots as the Provo Bench mean a lot of homes sit on compressible lakebed soils and decades-old fill, and many of them date to the post-war boom of the 1940s–1960s near Geneva Steel and along State Street. Add summer-long irrigation that wets one edge of a slab while the rest dries out, and you get the lopsided settlement we see all over town.
Orem sits on the old Provo Bench, where much of the ground is built on fine-grained Lake Bonneville sediments — silts and expansive clays — with looser alluvial soils near the Wasatch foothills. These soils shrink when dry and swell when wet, and combined with freeze-thaw winters they cause slabs to settle and crack over time.
Most Orem driveways run $1,000–$2,500 for polyfoam, depending on slab size and how far it has dropped. We give you a written upfront price after the free inspection, and there's no deposit — you pay when the work's done.
Most residential polyfoam jobs in Orem are finished in 1–3 hours. The slab is walkable within about 15 minutes and ready to drive on within an hour of completion.
Yes — along with Orem we serve neighboring Lindon, Vineyard, and Provo, plus the rest of Utah County. If you're near the Orem border we can usually take a look the same day.
It is. A lot of Orem settlement comes from sprinkler and irrigation water soaking one side of a slab. Our high-density polyurethane foam is water-resistant, so it won't wash out or erode in those wet zones the way some older materials can.
In most cases, yes. We drill dime-sized holes and inject expanding polyfoam to raise and stabilize the slab back into place — usually about half the cost of full replacement. We never guarantee a slab will end up perfectly level, but we work to raise it back toward its original position — and if a badly broken slab or hidden void limits the lift, we'll tell you honestly before we start.
Free inspection and an upfront written price in Orem. No deposit — you pay when the work's done.