Before & After Photos

If you've looked at any other content on our site, you may have seen wall anchors in action. This before and after is going to be a little different than some of the others. This is going to look at more of the cleanup, then the installation of the wall anchors. For this particular project, we had the crew had to install three wall anchors under the garage floor.

The "before" picture shows what it looked like once the crew had cut out the sections for the wall anchors to be installed, and had already excavated the dirt down to the level needed to install the wall anchor. As you can see, this can be a very messy process, especially in a garage. We always do our best to keep wherever we are working clean (as we can), and always clean-up after ourselves! In this garage, there was a tarp laid out to hold as much of the dirt as possible, to keep the floor from getting too dirty.

The "after" picture is a much different story than from before. The biggest difference is the fact there aren't deep holes in the middle of the garage or a huge pile of dirt. Jokes aside, our crew filled the holes back with the dirt, then poured some new concrete back into the holes. Although there will be a few "discolored" areas in this garage, it is all worth it in the end. First off, the only other option would be to rip up the garage floor and completely replace it, and two; the cuts must be made so that the outside wall doesn't get any worse.

This home had been suffering from some pretty serious foundation issues for awhile before they decided to call a professional to help with the issues. When our System Design Specialist went out to the home he noticed several large cracks on both the inside and outside of the home. While this seemed to be a huge issue (and would be if not taken care of), however our Specialist was able to figure out a solution with just a few push piers.

The main crack that can be seen in the before photo is a stair-step crack on the back wall. This was a pretty large crack, between a half inch and an inch wide, but it could certainly be closed up through the help of our push piers. There is also some other minor cracking along the left-hand wall, which is difficult to see because of the angle of the photo. 

This after picture is not as clear to see because the items that had been along the walls of the basement were moved back into place, however there has been quite a bit of progress made between the two photos. The large crack along the back wall was brought back towards its original position and the crew re-grouted the crack. The crack on the left hand wall was also fixed and the same was done for it. 

Homes must be supported by something; usual homeowners believe that placing a cinder block under their floor joist will solve the problem. They are wrong. When placing a cinder block or bricks under a floor joist it doesn’t keep the home from sinking. The bricks will sink down into the ground as well, defeating the purpose. The best way to fix this problem is to use a permanent solution such as SmartJacks. SmartJack posts rest on a concrete pad that is precast for support. Since the SmartJack has the concrete foundation for itself, there isn’t a chance that it could sink into the ground under the pressure of the house.

In the before picture you can see that the floor joists are being supported by cinderblocks. In the after you can see that the cinderblocks have been replaced by SmartJacks that will help stabilized the home’s floors.

Many of the projects that we work on aren't just a single problem, such as high humidity in a crawlspace or bowing walls in a basement. There are a lot of jobs that may have a few different problems that we can take of with different products and systems that we have. A great example of this is when there is a home with a sagging floor that needs SmartJacks, but also needs CleanSpace to help with the high humidity levels in the crawlspace.

This project was very similar to that example except the home needed push piers in order stabilize the foundation and CleanSpace liner to keep water and moisture out of the crawlspace. The first photo shows one of the areas that was cracking and where many of the push piers were installed. Here you can see one of our crew members working on the push piers!

The after photo shows the same area, but after the push piers had lifted and stabilized this area. The CleanSpace was laid out after the push pier work had been done in order to encapsulate the area. As you can see, the CleanSpace is laid out extremely tight against the wall of the crawlspace and is sealed extremely well. The CleanSpace liner does an excellent job at preventing moisture from getting into the crawlspace. 

This customer had a huge problem. They were in desperate need of some kind of foundation support system to fix these huge cracks in their home. Our crew installed our FSI Push Pier System in order to fix these and it really did the trick!

The "before" picture shows a huge crack in the customer's garage. We see small cracks which can cause a problem, but we hardly see cracks that you can see through to the outside!

The "after" photo shows the same crack after we installed our Push Piers and sealed the crack. You can see just how big of a difference the push piers can make! The best things about our products are that they give each and every one of our customers peace of mind after they are installed! This goes for both preventative work and work after the problem has already arisen.