When we talk to homeowners and property managers across Brainerd, whether it's someone with a sinking driveway apron near Gull Lake or a facility manager dealing with uneven concrete at a commercial pad off Highway 371, we hear the same thing: "It keeps settling back down."
I remember a call from a homeowner in Baxter who had hired a contractor the previous spring to patch a sunken section of his garage floor. By fall, the slab had dropped again, not because the leveling was done poorly, but because the void underneath was never addressed. When we went out to evaluate it, the soil had washed out beneath nearly two feet of that slab. We injected polyurethane foam to fill the void, stabilize the base, and lift the concrete back to grade. He called us the following year, not because it failed, but because he wanted us to look at his back patio.
The sandy, glacially deposited soils common throughout the Brainerd Lakes Area are highly susceptible to water infiltration and erosion beneath flatwork. Add in Minnesota's aggressive freeze-thaw cycles, and the ground beneath your concrete is under constant stress. Temporary patches don't stop that cycle. Addressing the void and stabilizing the soil does.
At Technical Construction Solutions LLC, concrete lifting and slab leveling are a core part of what we do. Freddy Lewis founded TCS after 15 years of hands-on construction experience, including highway lifting, undersealing, and void filling at the commercial and infrastructure level. Along with our trusted work as an insulation contractor, that background means we bring a different standard of diagnosis and execution to every project.
If you have sinking, uneven, or unstable concrete, start with a free estimate. One conversation is enough to assess the situation and put a solution in place that actually holds.
