Uni-Jack Supplemental Floor Support in Virginia Beach & Hampton Roads

No, and we would rather say so up front. Uni-Jacks are supplemental floor support: adjustable steel columns that share the load a weakened joist, girder, or undersized beam is struggling to carry. They are not intended as a fixed or permanent structural solution, and they do not replace underpinning, sistered or replaced framing, or a repair designed by a structural engineer. What they do well, when the cause of the sag is addressed and the jacks are adjusted each year, is stabilize a floor that flexes, sags, or bounces — at a fraction of what full structural reconstruction costs. If an inspection shows the damage is beyond what supplemental support should be asked to hold, we will tell you that instead of selling you jacks.

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A free crawl space inspection tells you whether supplemental support is the right call.

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Because the ground under a Hampton Roads home does not hold still. Seasonal moisture, a high water table, and the wet-dry cycle in coastal soil all move a crawl space footing slightly over the course of a year, and wood framing itself expands, contracts, and continues to settle under load. A yearly adjustment brings each jack back to the load it was set for. Skip it and the system does not fail dramatically — it just drifts, and you slowly lose the correction you paid for. Annual adjustment is how you maximize the performance of the system, and it can be handled as part of a service plan visit.

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The symptoms show up both inside the house and underneath it, and any one of them is worth an inspection because the cause matters as much as the symptom.

• A floor that dips toward the middle of a room or feels springy and bouncy underfoot.
• Furniture that no longer sits level and interior doors that stick or swing open on their own.
• Hairline cracks appearing where a wall meets a ceiling.
• Under the house, a girder that has cupped or split, or joists pulled away from a beam.
• A crushed shim stack or a pier that has sunk into damp soil.

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Symptoms upstairs are read from under the house — that is where the inspection starts.

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It is a same-day job in most homes, and because the work happens entirely under the floor, you can stay in the house while we are there. Raising the floor gradually matters, since forcing a settled floor up quickly cracks drywall, tile, and trim.

1. We start with a crawl space inspection, measuring the sag and identifying what caused it.
2. Where supplemental support is appropriate, we set adjustable steel columns on proper footings beneath the affected girder or joists.
3. We bring the columns up slowly and in stages to take the load without cracking the finishes above.

Start with measurements, not an estimate

How many supports and where they go is decided under the floor, before anything is quoted.

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Usually not perfectly, and any company promising a dead-level floor on a settled home is overselling. Realistically, supplemental support is expected to take the flex out of the floor, slow or stop further movement, and recover part of the sag over time as the framing relaxes into the corrected position — how much of that you get depends on the condition of the framing, the soil and footings, whether the moisture problem was solved, and whether the jacks are adjusted each year. Some homeowners get most of it back, some get a noticeable improvement rather than a full correction. We will give you an honest expectation at the inspection rather than after the invoice.

Get an honest expectation first

We will tell you how much of the sag is realistically recoverable before you commit to anything.

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Both, in the right order, because supporting rotted or insect-damaged wood without addressing the cause just relocates the problem. If the framing has been weakened by wood-destroying insects or decay, that gets treated and the compromised wood repaired first — see our termite damage repair and wood fungus treatment work. If moisture is what softened the wood, the crawl space needs to be dried out with drainage, a sump pump, or encapsulation, or the same conditions will simply work on the repair.

Handle the cause and the sag together

Damaged framing, crawl space moisture, and floor support are usually one project.

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It is quoted per home, because the price depends on how many supports the floor needs, how much of the framing has to be repaired first, and how accessible the crawl space is. A low-clearance crawl full of standing water is a different job from a dry one you can move through. The inspection and the quote are free and come with no obligation, and for qualified homeowners SmartPay financing is available with $0 down and 0% APR options on larger projects.

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Yes. Uni-Jack installation is purely mechanical — steel supports, footings, and framing repair — with no pest control products involved in the support work itself. It all takes place in the crawl space, and the only thing we ask is that children and pets stay clear of the access point and the work area while the crew is moving materials in and out.

Mechanical work, no chemicals

Steel and framing under the floor. Where treatment is also needed, the pet-safe side is handled separately.

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