Bowing and Leaning Walls
Bowing and Leaning Walls
Foundation movement has many different scenarios and is basically what happens when your foundation moves from its original position. One of the most significant problems that could be catastrophic to your home is the movement of basement walls that actually have two purposes. The first duty of a Basement wall or "sub wall" is to obviously hold up your house, the other purpose is to hold back the soils that are against it. These soils are applying a lateral pressure against your home and the walls are usually designed to hold it back. The next scenario we will discuss is another pressure against your wall when the soils become saturated with water which is hydrostatic pressure. Hydrostatic pressure is were the soils become fluid and heavy. When this extra pressure begins to push against your walls the possibility of failure becomes more prevalent .
Tieback Anchors or Wall Anchors
We at Extreme Technologys are well versed in these issues and provide several different types of products to fix these problems. When substantial movement has already occurred we offer a repair technique called Tiebacks or Wall Anchors. Tiebacks are generally designed using a Helix Pier that is screwed into the ground to achieve a tension capacity greater than the load capacity against the wall. A wall plate is then applied to the helix pier that will hold back or "Tieback" the foundation wall.
Carbon Fiber Reinforcement
Another repair process that we provide is carbon fiber reinforcement for the foundations that have moved less than 2 inches laterally. Our carbon fiber materials were developed by the engineers at Nationwide Reinforcer. The Reinforcer has chosen Extreme Technologys as a certified installer for there network of professional technicians for the Georgia Region. The Reinforcer is a patented state of the art system that uses space age polymers and carbon fibers to produce a material that is virtually impossible to stretch. With the Reinforcer epoxyed to your foundation wall the carbon fiber has to stretch for the wall to continue to bow. Since the Reinforcer has a tensile strength that is 10 times stronger than steel it wont stretch guaranteed.
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