Crawl Space Repair Photo Album: SmartJack Installation in Erin, TN

This customer in Erin, TN called Frontier due to uneven floors and cracks in their home's interior walls. His uneven floors were caused by failing crawl space supports. As these supports begin to give way, the floors above can sag, and interior walls may crack, resulting in expensive problems in your home. In many cases, a failing crawl space structure can be resolved by installing crawl space supports. For this customer, we installed our SmartJack System to support and lift the structure back up.

Crawl Space During Inspection

During the inspection, cracks are seen on the foundation wall, and the piers seem to be leaning, indicating structural failure. These issues won't solve themselves; they will only get worse without adding extra support to the structure.

Piers Failing

This pier is crumbling, and the support beam on top is sagging because it is not being supported.

Checking Levels

Checking the levels to see which beams are sagging and where we will need to add Smartjacks and support beams throughout the crawl space.

Crawl Space Supports

This photo shows moisture damage on the foundation walls as well as inadequate crawl space supports. This support pier is held up by a piece of wood as well as shimmed up on top with more loose wood under the support beam.

Foundation Failure

The foundation walls themselves can fail in a large number of ways. Most commonly, these walls will be damaged by foundation settling due to poor supporting soils. It's also very common for the walls to buckle inwards and crack like this wall due to pressure from expansive soils outside the home.

SmartJack Installation Process

After the area is mapped out that needs support, the SmartJack installation process starts with spacing out the SmartJack floor plates.

The SmartJack System

The SmartJack® Crawl Space Stabilizer is an adjustable supplemental support system used for sagging crawl spaces. It not only provides supplemental support to your failing structure -- it can also often lift failing floor joists or beams, restoring them to their original position.

Versatile Installation

The SmartJack 's portable size allows it to be installed in even the tightest of crawl spaces.

Stronger Crawl Space Support

Our crawl space support system can support vertical loads exceeding 60,000 pounds, which is far stronger than conventional concrete repairs.

Superior Support

Our support jacks do more than merely halt the downward movement of your floor. The SmartJack may also be adjusted to try to lift the floor above to its original position.