Foundation Services Before & After Photos

This basement was in a pretty rough shape before we made our repairs on it in Cincinnati, OH. As seen in the attached before photo, the walls were bowing in, the paint/sealant was chipping away, and the basement leaked heavily over the floor and up the cracks in the walls. Something you can't see with your eyes though, was the smell, but we're sure those who have been in basements like this can imagine. To repair the basement, we first waterproofed the entire basement perimeter by installing our subfloor drains in the cove joints, wrapping the walls with our CleanSpace vapor barrier, and installing a sump pump. Next, we braced the foundation to stop the walls from bowing in. This project will now allow the homeowner to stop worrying about the space below their home, and will even allow the homeowner to do whatever they please with the space.

This garage lintel in Cincinnati, OH, was drooping before we lifted and stabilized it with a lintel repair. A garage lintel, (the top of the garage opening) can start to droop downwards over time, causing the lintel to look like a slight grin. We lifted the lintel by installing steel beams along the inside of both walls in the opening of the garage face. We then ran a steel beam across both jacks to distribute the load. After jacking the lintel back to plum, we then covered the steel beams with a fresh trim. This trim completely concealed the steel beams. The homeowner was very happy with the outcome, and was super impressed with our crews ability to work around the garage number pad on the right side. Click here to learn more from our lintel repair distributor! 

External forces like hydrostatic pressure can cause your foundation walls to cave in. No worries though, we have the solution. Our steel I-beams called PowerBraces are not your ordinary I-beams. They are coated in zinc to prevent rusting, and they can handle very strong loads. Also, they were designed to prevent damage to your floor joists, as their special brackets can be tightened to straighten the wall back out.

This block wall foundation in Fort Thomas, KY, was pushing inward - and it was at a pretty severe stage of wall failure. We recommended that we install a wall repair system consisting of three of our PowerBraces in order to save the wall. These PowerBraces connect to the floor joists at the top will specialized brackets - which are designed to prevent floor joist movement. These brackets allow us to tighten the braces to straighten the wall out over time. You may also notice that we encapsulated the space with our CleanSpace vapor barrier. We also waterproofed this space by wrapping perforated drains underneath the floor, laying our dimpled membrane matting underneath the CleanSpace floor, and installing a SuperSump sump pump, (not pictured). The homeowner was not only relieved from the worry of a caving wall, but they were also happy with the added benefit of a dry and clean space.

We used our helical pier system to push this chimney back up against the home. Our piers were driven deep into load-bearing depths, allowing us to guarantee the structure is stable. In the before picture, the gap between the chimney and the home grows in size upwards. In the after picture, the slope is gone, and the chimney is standing as straight as possible. The result of this project was a happy homeowner who doesn't have to worry about their chimney toppling over any longer.