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Bow­ing Walls

Foun­da­tion walls are sub­ject­ed to dif­fer­ent types of lat­er­al pres­sures which can cause cracks or struc­tur­al dam­age. The most com­mon type of pres­sure on a wall is soil pres­sure. Soil pres­sure can affect walls once the exte­ri­or wall has been over­sat­u­rat­ed by some type of water source. Cracks that devel­op from this con­di­tion usu­al­ly cre­ate cer­tain pat­terns. Before a repair can be made on a bow­ing wall, it is impor­tant to iden­ti­fy the source caus­ing the soil pres­sure. If the soil pres­sure is not cor­rect­ly addressed, any repairs made to the wall may fail. It is also impor­tant to cor­rect­ly mea­sure how far the wall has bowed in. Once a cor­rect mea­sure­ment has been tak­en, car­bon fiber or steel can be used to sta­bi­lize the bow­ing wall.

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With over 25 years of expe­ri­ence and a real focus on cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion, you can rely on us for your next project. We pro­vide pro­fes­sion­al ren­o­va­tion and instal­la­tion ser­vices with a real focus on cus­tomer satisfaction.

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What our customers say

  • Thank you for final­ly get­ting rid of my flood­ing prob­lem. I had almost resigned myself to liv­ing with the Black Lagoon in my base­ment. You were able to iden­ti­fy the real prob­lem with my leak by using some empir­i­cal evi­dence rather than guess­ing and charg­ing me for fan­tas­ti­cal projects. Above all, you talked to me as if l am an intel­li­gent per­son instead of ​“the lit­tle lady” who needs her hus­band to make a deci­sion. Final­ly, the extent and care of your pro­pos­al, with its exten­sive pic­tures, con­vinced me that you are an hon­est bro­ker. My base­ment stayed dry despite the recent tor­ren­tial rains. I would be hap­py to rec­om­mend your work.

    Paris

  • You and your crew did a great job in our base­ment and crawl­space. You went the extra mile to insure that all of our water seep­age prob­lems are over. We would rec­om­mend you high­ly to oth­er peo­ple. Your qual­i­ty and time­ly work out­match­es all the others.

    William

  • We con­tract­ed Fam­i­ly Water­proof­ing Solu­tions for exte­ri­or wall seal­ing and foun­da­tion crack repair ser­vices. Ken was very thor­ough in explain­ing the work that would be done, and his crew did a great job. This busi­ness was a plea­sure to work with.

    Stacie T.

  • Work­man­ship and ser­vice were excel­lent. Would rec­om­mend with­out reservation.

    Ed