Foundation Repair Before & After Photos

This O'Fallon, Missouri garage started settling due to the extreme hot temperatures drying out the supporting soils under the shallower footing that only needs to be below the frost line compared to the deeper foundation of a basement.  We installed several push piers in the interior of the garage to help save the homeowner's landscaping.  We were able to do so since the homeowner acted quickly to get the repairs completed before further settling rotated the foundation outward.  If that had occurred, we would have to install the piers on the outside of the foundation to help rotate the foundation back... and then the landscaping would have needed to be replaced too, adding to the overall cost of this project.

Now that a bowed wall is securely anchored, what are the options for finishing?

In an utility room like in this Pontoon Beach, Illinois home, the homeowners painted the foundation wall and added our Foundation Supportworks® anchor plate covers to cover up the wall anchors.

We use laser transits to determine how far a foundation wall is laterally moving inward.  We can measure the inside wall and look for other visible signs of this problem.  Typically, a poured foundation wall will tip in at the top of the foundation.  See the 2nd photo of the exterior space between the siding and foundation wall of this O'Fallon, Missouri foundation.  The Foundation SupportWorks® Geo-Lock™ wall anchors system solves this problem and is cost effective to do.

Street creep causes a garage slab to force the rear wall of the garage foundation out.  The rear foundation wall either bows to the exterior like in the photo of this Sunset Hills, Missouri home, or inward into a basement; however, with limited damage, isolated to the 2nd picture shown, it could be determined that in this case it is a rebar crack.  Rebar that slips to the exterior of the concrete form when the foundation is being poured may later cause horizontal cracking like this.  Rebar cracks are more of a cosmetic repair than a structural damage issue.

Geo-Lock earth anchors were installed in a bowing wall in Edwards, IL to permanently stabilize and straighten it over time.