Before & After Photos

The crack you can see from the "before" picture from this basement in Goshen, OH, is very common. When a block wall experiences lateral movement, it will first start to crack in a horizontal line right near the frost line is in the outside soil. In the later stages of development, the crack will then expand to both corners of the wall in a stair-like pattern. Although a quite scary crack, we have seen it thousands of times and have repaired it thousands of times with our PowerBrace system. Our PowerBraces are made of steel and are coated in zinc to prevent rusting. They also have specially designed brackets at the top to prevent floor joist damage, and these brackets allow us to potentially straighten out the wall again through annual adjustments. The homeowner was relieved to know that we've seen this crack thousands of times, and that we were able to install a full-proof system. 

This homeowner called us because they noticed horizontal cracks in their foundation walls and they noticed that the walls were bowing in more and more over time. They knew they were going to need some reinforcing to protect their home, so they called us. We installed our steel zinc-coated PowerBraces on all the walls that were bowing in. PowerBraces are great because they are designed to not only realign the walls over time, but they also protect floor joists from damage, unlike alternative steel beams other contractors may install.

We installed slab piers for this home in Winchester, Ohio, in order to level out the sunken flooring. You can note the gap between the floor and the baseboard in the before picture, and how the gap closed in the after picture. We use slab piers in order to permanently stabilize the slab by connecting the slab to load bearing-soil found deep below the house. We can then raise the piers in order to raise the slab back to where it was when it was originally poured. We then fill the voids left from raising the slab with our expansive PolyLevel foam. The result is a floor that won't ever settle again for this slab foundation home.

Many homes in the Hillsboro, OH area have been affected by drought conditions, which can cause the soil beneath foundations to shrink and settle. At this home, the back porch had begun to sink as soil erosion and drought-related shrinkage left inadequate support beneath the structure. To permanently stabilize the porch and help prevent further settlement, we installed foundation piers to underpin and support the foundation. We would later conceal the piers with a soil backfill process shortly after capturing the "after" photo seen attached to this project. 

The owner of this home in Greenfield, OH, gave us a call to fix their basement which had, "two block walls being pushed in by built up groundwater outside of the basement." To repair the basement, we installed a full waterproofing system that wrapped around the entire perimeter, and we installed a wall bracing system along the two structurally damaged walls. This before and after photo set reveals a small portion of the scope of the entire repair work, but the after photo does contain the two main components of the full system: The two steel PowerBraces that run vertically up the wall will stop the wall from shifting inwards and the WaterGuard subfloor drainage system, (concealed underneath the newly floated concrete) will drain water to the unpictured sump pump, eliminating the high water table around the home as well as leaks.