Foundation Repair Photo Album: Wall Repair in Fairview, TN

This customer in Fairview, TN, called Frontier because their basement's foundational wall was failing. To fix the failing walls, we installed a Geo-Lock Wall Anchor System on the front and side foundation walls. Our Geo-Lock™ Wall Anchor System permanently stabilizes your basement walls, offering the best opportunity to straighten the walls without the cost and disruption of foundation replacement. Heavy-duty, galvanized earth anchors are embedded in stable, undisturbed soil outside your foundation wall. Each anchor is connected by a steel rod to a wall plate that provides clamping pressure against the inside of the foundation wall. This method also offers the potential to straighten the wall back to its original position.

Vertical Cracking in Foundation Walls

While there are a number of potential causes of cracked and bowing foundation walls, the most common reason is pressure from foundation soils.

Stair Step Cracks

When clay soils get wet, they can expand and put tremendous pressure on a wall. When this force exceeds the wall's ability to resist it, the wall begins to fail in different ways. Cracking, bowing and tilting are the most common symptoms of foundation wall failure.

Earth Anchor Installation

At the beginning of each earth anchor installation, sod is carefully removed from your lawn and placed aside for later. An earth anchor hole is made using a power auger. After securing the end of each anchor rod to its earth anchor, these assemblies are buried in the ground, using soil removed earlier. To resist corrosion damage, each of our earth anchor systems is designed with galvanized steel.

Anchor Rods

Once the hole has been excavated, we will core a small hole through your basement wall. Then, a steel anchor rod will be driven through the wall and soil, extending through a hole in the center of the earth anchor. One way our wall anchor system is superior to other methods is that the hole created in the foundation wall is very small.

Wall Plates

Once the earth anchors have been installed, our foundation repair experts will mount a wall plate over each anchor rod end that protrudes from the basement wall. Screwing a large nut to the threaded end of the anchor rod secures each wall plate and stabilizes the wall as the nut is tightened.

Plate Secured

Foundation wall anchors can repair many bowing wall problems. Soil anchors are placed in the ground outside.

Installation Process

Steel rods attached to soil anchors extend through the foundation wall and wall plates. Wall plates distribute clamping pressure. Tightening nuts on the threaded ends of the rods stabilizes the wall for a permanent solution.

Wall Anchor Installation

These wall plates will be spaced between 3-5 feet apart along each failing wall.

Wall Repair Process

The Foundation Supportworks Geo-Lock™ Wall Anchor System permanently stabilizes your basement walls, offering the best opportunity to straighten the walls without the cost and disruption of foundation replacement.

Restoring Landscaping

At Frontier Foundation & Crawl Space Repair, we take pride in leaving each job clean, neat, and free of damage to existing landscaping. As part of our cleanup process, we fill holes completely with dirt saved earlier and tamp filled areas to ensure that depressed areas will not be created as the soils settle over time.