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@@DrLeroyGreen they found there’s another quarry in Central MA now pulling the same bad stone so it’s not just from Willington anymore. This problem extends all the way up to the NH border now

@@73er-xy3ky in CT it was Beckers in Willington. In Central MA they have not officially identified it, only that it is in Central MA.

@@73er-xy3ky it can cost anywhere from $85k for a modest home to $250k for a much larger home. The more concrete the higher the cost. A difficult lift will add to the price as well.

@@stephenodonovan4168 I went through this on Old Monson in 2019. Certainly no walk in the park but at least we have help there. These folks in MA have no help and have to pay themselves

@@stephenodonovan4168 oh and Central MA has its own quarry that it pulled the same bad stone from so it wasn’t just the CT one

What quarry? Form western ma

@@reeflab2221 they are not identifying it other than saying it is in “Central MA”. It has since ceased selling aggregate for concrete

@@serega503 we have good soils here so rebar wasn’t code until about 10 years ago. I grew up in a home built in the 1960’s with no rebar and it still looks brand new. Commercial required rebar forever but this problem still manifests with rebar in it and those commercial buildings are failing too

@@alexgobo20 a demo and rebuild would be about 3x the cost of the replacement. This is a specific concrete defect that homeowners can get assistance with here in CT

@@rudycarlson8245 it’s not, but there is financial assistance for homeowners in CT who have this specific defective concrete due to pyrrhotite

@@e.lebrunet6311 owners priced out that option and it was 4x as much as the repair

@@pete2376 absolutely it should. This issue would have still occurred but it wasn’t code back then but is now

@@xz4wkd we did that on the last one but this one has a backyard that goes uphill so it wasn’t possible

@@TheShmeebitdog it was a stone used in the concrete that is causing this. Thousands of homes in CT and MA have this issue

@@TheShmeebitdog it was the stone used in the concrete that caused this issue. Thousands of homes in CT and MA are affected as a result

@@TeamTnA44 they kept the basement. It was just faulty concrete so it all needed to be replaced

@@leedevine2316 this problem originated at the quarry. Pyrrhotite was used in the concrete which caused it to fail prematurely so it’s hard to blame a builder that just unknowingly bought a faulty product from a ready mix company that bought the bad stone.

@@Thetreefella that’s actually false. PSI testing can be done in as little as 3 days. The “28 day rule” just means that by 28 days it should be at full strength of what you ordered or it is considered faulty. Often times it reaches the full PSI long before the 28 days

@@foundationsolutions735 Correct. You can order "high early strength" concrete what reaches ~85% in a week and have a cylinder tested to verify. This allowed me to hurry the schedule when winter was coming on several projects. Good Luck, Rick

@@richardross7219 yep, our concrete usually tests around 80% or more strength in 7 days and we typically let it go another week after that before lowering

@@kevinmelanson3282 it’s not so much the installation, more the supplier. We have had serious issues with concrete in this area (which is why we are doing this work) and our installer is in his 50’s and used to do commercial work so he’s used to this type of testing. It’s not insulting and he gets it.

@@ethnicwonder we don’t, sorry. Just CT and MA

@@joelockard7174 it had a full basement before and has one again. We just replaced it all

@@5p4Rk3B4ll5 we have an epidemic of bad concrete here in the northeast US. This work isn’t voluntary, it’s done to save the house since the foundation is failing. It had a full basement before but all the faulty concrete was removed and replaced.