Before & After Photos

Cinder block walls often fail due to the weight of the soil, the weight of the water in the soil, and the pressure created by clay expansion when it gets wet. The result is that the walls bow inward and will eventually collapse unless repaired.

The GeoLock Wall Anchor System is the best solution for bowed walls. This dead-man anchoring system is capable of reversing the pressure and stabilizing the wall. The GeoLock System has three main parts: a 9-foot threaded galvanized rod that extends out to the exterior ground anchor - a galvanized steel plus-sign-shaped plate that gets embedded in stable soil, away from the foundation of your house. The other end of the threaded rod goes through two steel channel anchor plates - one plate is attached on the exterior side of the wall, the other, in the exact location on the interior (basement) side of the wall. There is a bolt attached to the end of the rod that enters your basement. When that bolt is tightened, it creates reverse pressure and holds the wall securely in its current position. However, when the soil outside is very dry, the bolt can be tightened more to straighten the wall, and over time, the wall may straighten to its original position. Very cool indeed! This home in Elkton needed 10 anchors to repair the wall.

We helped this customer with crawl space repair.

For this project, we installed a 27" x 45" In-Swing Egress Window with a 24" deep Cascade Large Egress Well.

For this basement repair, we had to install 2 PowerBraces. PowerBraces were needed due to the fact that  one part of the foundation wall was bowing inward and we needed to stop that forward movement.

This install consisted of a Cleanspace Vapor Barrier, Waterguard and a SuperSump Pump with Battery Backup. The CleanSpace will direct any water that the customer had coming in through their block foundation, down to the waterguard, which will then flow the water over to the SuperSump and pumped out of the basement. Our SuperSump Pump has a high end 1/3 hp Zoeller cast iron pump that pumps out over 2600 gallons per hour and when paired with our UltraSump Battery Back Up, this customer's basement will stay dry during any power outages.