Grouting Services

Grout is generally a mixture of water, cement, sand, often color tint, and sometimes fine gravel (if it is being used to fill the cores of concrete blocks).

It is applied as a thick emulsion and hardens over time, much like its close relative mortar. Grouting is a widely used method for strengthening and sealing rock, soil and concrete.

The purpose of the grout curtain is restrict seepage to such an amount that it does not cause too much loss of storage, and does not dislodge the foundation downstream or erode the base of the dam.

types of grouting

There are mainly six types of Grouting:-

  • Stage Grouting
  • Curtain Grouting
  • Contact Grouting
  • Polyurethane Grouting
  • Pressure Grouting
  • Consolidation Grouting

types

Stage Grouting:

It is conducted to permit treatment of various zones individually , by grouting successively increasing depths, after sealing the upper zones.

Curtain Grouting:

The injection of grout into the ground in a broad line to act as a barrier to subsurface water flow. To safeguard the foundation against erodibility hazard or to reduce quantity of seepage.

Contact Grouting:

The term ‘Contact grouting’ as it applies to the area of reclamation can be defined as ‘ Filling, with cement grout, any voids existing at the contact of two zones of different materials, e.g., between a concrete tunnel lining and the surrounding rock.

Polyurethane Grouting:

Special type of polyurethane chemical is used for grouting purpose for immediate stoppage of seepage. Available in gel, paste, liquid form.

Pressure Grouting:

Pressure grouting involves injecting a grout material into generally isolated pore or void space of which neither the configuration or volume are known, and is often referred to simply as grouting. The grout may be a cementitious, resinous, or solution chemical mixture.

Consolidation Grouting :

The injection of fluid grouting, usually portland cement and sand, into a compressible soil mass to displace it and form a structure for support.

Jet Grouting :

Jet grouting is a method of soil stabilization which involves the injection of a stabilizing fluid into the subsoil (or the soil under treatment) under high pressure under high velocity. The injection process involves a certain amount of site preparation as well as injection equipment. The soil stabilization by jet grouting occurs due to the hardening of grouted fluid within the soil.

Permeation Grouting:

Permeation grouting (also known as cement grouting, chemical grouting or pressure grouting) fills cracks or voids in soil and rock and permeates granular soils with flowable grouts to create a cemented mass.