Elevation and Shoring Services
Slab Separation
Repetitive flooding affects thousands of homes and businesses. Two elevation options have arrived in order to avoid these damages. They are :
1. Removal from the slab
2. Perimeter jacking using foundation repair and leveling techniques
1. Removal from the slab
2. Perimeter jacking using foundation repair and leveling techniques
Slab elevation is now offered by Southern Elevations & Shoring Inc.
Lowest Floor Elevation
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) minimum elevation requirements, to point out common construction practices that are violations of NFIP regulations and result in significantly higher flood insurance premiums, and to discuss the NFIP Elevation Certificate.
Elevating an Existing Home
If you live in Louisiana, your primary objective in raising a home is likely to be flood avoidance, even if you’re not in an identified flood hazard area. Elevation is the most effective on-site method of reducing future flood damage. New buildings in designated flood hazard areas must have the lowest floor at or above the elevation of the base flood, the Base Flood Elevation (BFE).
