by Jay Silver | Apr 10, 2013 | Residential Blog Posts
Following the tragedy in Seffner, both the local Fox News station and The Rick Stroud & Tom Jones Show on local radio station 620 AM WDAE, turned to the experts at Helicon for information about sinkholes and sinkhole repair options. Fox News reporters...by Jay Silver | Mar 11, 2013 | Residential Blog Posts
March 11, 2013 — Helicon, a State of Florida industry leader in foundation and sinkhole repair, recently completed a project at the USF campus. Sinkhole conditions were identified mid-February, on the east side of the campus near the USF/Patel Elementary School. Due...by Jay Silver | Mar 6, 2013 | Residential Blog Posts
Florida’s new property insurance reform, SB 408, may lull some homeowners into thinking that they don’t need to buy sinkhole coverage. After all, won’t paying for a “Catastrophic Ground Cover Collapse” policy be enough? Many in the insurance lobby say that it is a...by Jay Silver | Feb 18, 2013 | Residential Blog Posts
The people of Plant City, FL sometimes refer to 2010 as the “year of the sinkhole.” While there are incidences of sinkholes in Plant City, the winter of 2010 was a literal sinkhole bonanza. Record cold temperatures in January, collided with Plant City’s strawberry...by Jay Silver | Jan 16, 2013 | Residential Blog Posts
One of the questions I asked Ralph Meder, geologist at MCD of Central Florida, several weeks ago was, “Don’t residential property developers know that there may be sinkhole conditions before they begin building homes on a particular site?” I was thinking that if the...by Jay Silver | Dec 16, 2012 | Residential Blog Posts
I worried about giving this blog post the title, “Understanding Florida’s SB 408,” simply because there is so much about SB 408 that remains difficult to understand. Homeowners are not the only ones scratching their heads. Even the experts find it difficult to wade...