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Successfully building a home requires many things, including choosing the right subcontractor for the job. Success doesn’t occur accidentally. It depends upon many factors. High standards, experience, hard work, determination, and making the right choices are only a few of these factors. When it comes to choosing your poured wall foundation and concrete flatwork contractor, J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry is the right choice for all the right reasons.

• Prompt: Bid proposals are returned within 48 hours of the time they are received.
• Efficient: Bid proposals are detailed and easy to read.
• Personable: Meetings are scheduled with the builder or homeowner on the job site, before the home is started, to get all of our questions answered.
• Honest: Honesty in scheduling is used on each and every job that is done.
• Accurate: Concentrating on getting our walls within 1/4" in length, 1/4" in square, and 1/8" in height.
• Superior: Poured walls that are poured with 4000 psi concrete mix with water reducer in the concrete mix to reduce the cracking in the walls and to give our customers the best final product in the market.
• Reinforcement: Poured walls that have vertical re-rod every 32" and horizontal re-rod every 24" which minimizes cracking and is significantly higher than Michigan Residential Code Specifications.
• Strength: Basement floors, porch tops, and patios that are poured with 4000 psi concrete mix.
• Durability: Garage floors, driveways, and sidewalks that are poured with 4000 psi concrete mix with a fiber mesh reinforcement for added strength and to reduce cracking.

J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry Specializes in Residential:

J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry Does work in these Michigan Counties:

• Saginaw County
• Bay County                              
• Tuscola County
• Genesee County
• Huron County
• If you don't see your area listed, give us a call and we'll either find a way to get to you or give you a referral to a qualified concrete contractor in your area.

How Does J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry Reduce Cracking?

Cracks in concrete walls and floors cannot be eliminated, but they can be reduced. Here are some of the ways that J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry reduces cracking in our walls and flatwork:

·         J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry uses 4,000 psi concrete mix in our walls with a water reducer. This concrete mix is used in order to allow the concrete to flow better through the poured wall forms and in order to use less water in the concrete. This makes for a smoother wall and reduces shrinkage due to drying.

·         J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry uses horizontal re-bar every 24" and vertical re-bar every 32" in our poured walls. This reduces shrinkage and sub-grade settlement cracks.

·         J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry usually pours our walls in the evening of each day. This minimizes the temperature differences in the concrete and the air, which reduces temperature cracking.

·         J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry suggests that only sand be used to backfill our poured walls. This minimizes cracks in the poured walls because of the small amount of lateral pressure that sand backfill places on the walls. This also minimizes cracking because of the draining properties of sand backfill.

·         J.D. Laundra Foundations & Masonry suggests that the backfilling should not take place for at least 72 hours after our poured wall forms are stripped off the wall. This will allow the concrete to reach a high enough compressive strength to withstand the pressure of backfilling.