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Fixing Cracks in Your Foundation
Hydrostatic pressure can cause cracks in your foundation. Big or small, these cracks can cause basement waterproofing issues and other structural problems within your home. Our team offers professional wall crack repair for damaged and cracked foundation walls across Central Illinois and the Quad Cities.
What Causes Wall Cracks
Basement wall and floor cracks have two main causes: hydrostatic pressure and foundation settlement. These two issues put stress on the walls and floors of your foundation, causing cracks to appear. Even the smallest cracks can lead to water leaks, bowed walls, and other foundation issues.
Repairing Wall Cracks with Carbon Fiber
With the proper techniques and tools, we can repair wall cracks quickly and prevent future cracks from occurring. Other basement foundation companies use an epoxy injection to fill the void and seal the crack. However, epoxy injections can break down over time, causing the crack to re-open and letting water back into your basement. Force Basements, on the other hand, found more innovative, advanced options to repair foundation cracks. Our team uses a patented carbon fiber repair technique that uses both epoxy injection and carbon fiber patches to seal and cover the gap. The high-strength carbon fibers keep the crack closed and prevent the epoxy injection from breaking down over time.
If you have noticed wall cracks in your basement, contact our team. We can help you keep your home safe and dry year-round.
Bowed Wall Repair
Basement walls hold up your home structure and keep water and soil out of the lower level. Bowing and buckling basement walls cause structural issues that require immediate attention. During heavy rainfall, water mixes with soil and pools up against your basement walls, creating hydrostatic pressure. This pressure pushes in on your basement walls and can gradually cause them to buckle or bow inward. Ignoring these issues can lead to major structural problems as well as costly repairs for your home — as this pressure increases and the walls bow, this can cause foundation walls to collapse.
Force Basements understands the severity of this problem. We have the professional equipment and knowledge to repair and correct the bowing walls before they cause extensive damage to your home. Contact our team to schedule bowed wall repair.
Repairing Bowed Walls with SafeBase™ Wall Anchors
For proper bowed wall repair, our experts will install SafeBase™ wall anchors. This three-part system consists of two plates and a long connecting rod. The process starts with driving a long steel rod into the ground through a hole we drill in your foundation wall. The first plate goes into the ground outside your home, 10-15 feet from your basement wall, to ensure it’s placed in undisturbed soil. The second plate is inside your basement attached to the rod — which our team anchors on the outside plate — and is slowly tightened to pull the bowing wall back into place. Tightening may require multiple visits to ensure your wall is back in its original position.
DIY vs. Professional Repair
Foundation repair can be extremely dangerous depending on the situation — no matter how in control of the situation you think you are, there’s still the chance of something going horribly wrong, such as a complete foundation collapse causing extensive structural damage and serious injuries. Additionally, foundation repair normally isn’t covered by insurance. As professionals, we’re insured in case of an accident. Our years of experience and sophisticated equipment reduce the likelihood of an accident occurring.
Service Area
Force Basements proudly provides foundation repair, basement waterproofing, bowed wall repair, and crawl space repair services to homes and businesses in Bloomington, Peoria, the Quad Cities, and surrounding communities.