Foundation Repair Before & After Photos

Kathy was looking to sell her home but had some stair step cracks and a bowing wall in the basement. She wanted it fixed so she could put the home on the market. We installed GeoLock Wall Anchors to halt further movement in the walls. These wall anchors work extending from your wall to the hard packed soil beyond your home. They anchor into these stronger, stable soils and brace the foundation wall. This system is installed with minimal disruption to your lawn, and they won't damage the interior of your basement or take up usable space.

Cheryl had a bowing wall in her block foundation. So she called our team and we installed CarbonArmor in her basement. CarbonArmor is a wall reinforcing system constructed to repair damaged and bowing foundation walls. By preventing the inward movement and reducing the cracks in your walls, CarbonArmor is able to prevent Cheryl’s wall from continuing to bow. This system can easily be concealed for your basement to have a sleek, finished look.

A wall was cracking and bowing inwards in David and Mabel’s basement. Also, the floor near the bowing wall had sunk about 4 inches. So our team installed PowerBrace, a foundation repair system created to secure basement walls in place. Often outside pressures can cause your basement walls to crack or tilt, this foundation repair system counteracts these pressures by keeping your basement walls in place. Over time, the system can be tightened to not only secure the walls in place, but to also straighten them. 

This Allendale Charter homeowner bought this house as a rental property. A distracted driver hit the house and as a result, the foundation wall was pushed in. This wall is now weakening and not supporting the home. The homeowner wanted it fixed as soon as possible because he was worried about the structure. We used GeoLock Channel Anchors to stabilize the wall. Steel earth anchors are installed and steel rods are joined to them through the wall where channel anchors are secured to the floor and the other end of the rod inside your foundation wall. These anchors will permanently stabilize your wall and could return it to its original condition.

This basement had a severe case of bowing walls, as you can probably tell by the separation of blocks in the before photo. This occurs because the pressure caused by expanding soil is too much for the foundation to handle, so instead of standing upright, the wall is being forced in and splitting at the middle. While we typically use one of two methods to solve bowing foundation problems, the condition of this basement called for both products: GeoLock Wall Anchors and the PowerBrace System. However, only one system, the PowerBrace beams, are seen in the after photo.

PowerBrace beams work by countering the pressure put on bowing walls. The bracket at the top of the beam was attached to the wooden floor joist above to shift the weight from foundation to beam. Not only does the beam take over supporting the foundation, the bracket can be tightened whenever the homeowner feels it necessary. Instead of being forced in, the wall will cease to move, and thanks to the tightening ability of PowerBrace, may even be forced back to its original position.