Before & After Photos

This St. Louis, Missouri home had bowing walls as well as wall cracks. Woods Basement Systems installed wall anchors to repair the bowing walls.

Even though this chimney footing on this St. Louis, Missouri  home was at full depth like the basement wall, it nevertheless titled, settling and pulling away from the house.  We installed a Foundation Supportworks® push pier system to help return it to its original position.

Engineers use simple crack monitoring devices to help determine the extent and direction a structure may be settling.  Settling occurs when supporting soils beneath a structure's footings sink.  This building's settling could be a slow effect compounded by last summers' serious drought in St. Louis.  Push piers from Foundation SupportWorks® were installed to stop this structure from settling further.

Push Piers are driven deep into the ground on the exterior of the home and are embedded in a stable layer of soil.  A heavy-duty steel bracket is installed against the foundation's footing, and steel piers are hydraulically driven through the bracket to bedrock.  The weight of the home is transferred through the piers to the soil, which provides an opportunity for the home to be lifted back toward its original position.  Once installation is complete, the soil is backfilled and the home is permanently stabilized.

This homeowner was dealing with bowing walls.  He called Woods Basement Systems and found the Geo-Lock Wall Anchors would be the perfect solution to stop this from occurring and straighten out the damage.