Before & After Photos

A stair-stepping crack through the brickwork is a possible sign of a foundation that is settling. These Freeburg, Illinois homeowners called us to take care of the crack and inspect their foundation.

Our push piers are placed beneath the foundation wall by removing some of the footing so the pier bracket fits close to the vertical foundation wall.  The hydraulic ram smoothly installs the pier tubing and the excavated holes are filled in when completed.

Water marks coming down from the wood sill plate is an outside drainage issue and needs to be repaired from the outside.  Digging a trench and installing drain tile below the sill plate directs water to a low spot downhill from the sill plate.  Water can no longer rise up and come in over the sill plate into the basement.

Basement are places where high humidity may collect and then condensation issues may arise.  Water vapor condenses on duct work when the AC is running and/or cold water pipes.  In this case it was the water softener, full of cool water, causing condensation on the outside of the tank.  So much water vapor reverted back to water, running down the tank, and making the basement floor so wet the homeowner thought they had a seepage problem.   But it had not rained for a couple of weeks...?

SaniDry® took care of the problem.  Our dehumidifier runs off of the same 6.8 AMPs as a 40 pint dehumidifier but ours is rated at 100 pints.  It's LARGE blower can move the air better too but it is not noisy.  We have a SaniDry® that is a low profile model for crawl spaces too.

A stone foundation leaks in several locations beside where the basement floor meets the wall.  To fix this leaky stone foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, we installed our WaterGuard® waterproofing system, which has a vertical flange that allows the water that comes in between the stones to get down into the system. After that if freely flows to our TripleSafe® sump pump.  Before remodeling we recommend a vertical vapor barrier be applied to the stone foundation.

Street creep is when the expansion of the roadway pushes on the driveway that causes the foundation wall of a structure to bow.  This St. Charles, Missouri home has a walkout basement and elevated driveway and garage; and the rear foundation wall bowed outward.  The front top-left corner brick slid with the movement of the foundation.  Our Foundation SupportWorks® Geo-Lock™ wall anchoring system stopped the bowing.  This work has a written transferable warranty.