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The soil around the foundation became so saturated with water that the hydrostatic pressure built up against the wall caused it to crack and bow. To permanently stabilize the wall and prevent further bowing and cracking, we installed our GeoLock Anchor System. Heavy-duty steel earth anchors are buried in stable soil away from the foundation wall, and connected to steel wall plates on the inside of the wall by galvanized rods.
This brick home started to form stress cracks inside the crawl space and was sloping away on one side. So, we shored up these foundation issues by installing helical piers under the home.
The weight of the house started to be too much for the piers to carry. The floor inside the home was sagging, so we stabilized it by installing our SmartJacks in the crawl space.
The SmartJack system is the only floor-stabilizing solution that addresses the root cause of sagging floors - the weak soils below. SmartJacks are fully-adjustable steel piers that permanently stop settlement in its tracks and lift the floors back to their original position.
A brick foundation wall in this customers full-basement was bowing and cracked. The Geo-Lock Channel Anchor System provides a permanent solution for bowing, buckling, tilting, or inward-moving foundation walls that are demonstrating signs of extreme wall failure. In addition to the Anchor System, CleanSpace Vapor Barrier was fastened to the wall to prevent moisture from passing through.