Before & After Photos

When a home doesn't have a crawlspace or basement, how does DryZone fix a broken foundation? The answer is with slab piers. If the home is built directly on a concrete slab that sits directly on the ground, its the best option. The slab sinks and pulls on the walls. The easiest way to notice a problem is by looking at the baseboard or show molding at the base of the wall. In the "before" picture, you can see that the baseboard has a gap under it. That is a sign that the floor is settling. Slab piers are installed every few feet in a home and have a great chance of raising the floor back to level.

When a home settles and the floors start to sag it can be caused by several different things. One of those reasons is wet wooden support beams. The wood gets a little squishy when it is too wet and that can cause them to smash around the concrete columns in a crawlspace. Most of the time the damage is minor and easily corrected. Many people will try and wedge wooden shims up under the beams. But if the problem is wet wood, why would adding more wood solve the problem? DryZone uses metal shims for minor adjustments. The best way to ensure that this problem is permanently fixed is to dry out the crawlspace and keep it dry. Metal shims will help to correct the small damage before the wood cracks and rots.

PowerBraces are one of the great foundation support products that DryZone uses to stabilize a broken basement wall. These are generally used when an underground obstacle prevents a proper GeoLock wall anchor installation. The PowerBrace is a heavy steel beam and an adjustable bracket. It pushes on the bowing wall to provide support and carries a hefty warranty.

When the wooden beams under the home get so wet that they become soft, the weight of the house will crush them around the existing piers. Drying out the crawlspace is a great way to prevent this. Installing adjustable SmartJacks instead of new concrete piers is a great way to fix it. SmartJacks resist corrosion and are fully adjustable. This allows the homeowner to achieve a slow and steady lift if the want.

Before and afters are sometimes hard to show when it comes to foundation repair. Push piers are always covered up with fresh concrete. The wall cracks are never going to disappear completely, but getting a big crack to close up like in these pictures makes for a great visual. The push piers that DryZone installed were able to lift the entire wall and close the gap almost to the original position. The wall is now supported and warrantied for many years to come.