Wall Cracks, Sinking or Bowing Foundations

Foundation stability is extremely important to having a healthy and level home. Wall Cracks, a sinking foundation, or bowing basement walls are key indicators that there are both interior and exterior issues with your foundation that need to be addressed quickly and successfully.

Bowing walls are caused by exterior soil expansion pressing on a block foundation. This moves the soil laterally directly against the block wall that can lead to the mortar separating and the blocks bowing in.

Sinking foundations, or sections of the foundation falling into the soil, require more support from the soil below them. Foundation undermining is the lead cause of this and can often be simply corrected by a series of foundation piers.

Wall Cracks are symptoms of excess stress, damage or movement in the foundation. Things like wall cracks demand a trained eye to determine the best repair method.

What can I do?

Having an inspection done of your foundation will help you to understand the multiple factors that all foundations have to contend with. Basement Solutions Project Mangers will help to assess and diagnosis the cause and recommend the best possible solution to you.

Foundation issues are repairable. The key is to catch these issues early enough to fix them before they affect the rest of the home, or a separate part of the foundation.

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