Woods Basement Systems, Inc. Before & After Photos

Now that a bowed wall is securely anchored, what are the options for finishing?

In an utility room like in this Pontoon Beach, Illinois home, the homeowners painted the foundation wall and added our Foundation Supportworks® anchor plate covers to cover up the wall anchors.

Basement wall leaks were still a problem during heavy rains with the existing basement waterproofing system in this Clayton, Missouri home.  We added our BrightWall® wall covering that looks like a finished wall and at the base we incorporated it into the existing wall flange.

The room addition in this Brentwood, Missouri house was built off a slab foundation and water was getting in from the patio and wetting the carpet inside. Our TrenchDrain® collected the water and drained it away from the home.

We use laser transits to determine how far a foundation wall is laterally moving inward.  We can measure the inside wall and look for other visible signs of this problem.  Typically, a poured foundation wall will tip in at the top of the foundation.  See the 2nd photo of the exterior space between the siding and foundation wall of this O'Fallon, Missouri foundation.  The Foundation SupportWorks® Geo-Lock™ wall anchors system solves this problem and is cost effective to do.

With a slab foundation the concrete floor is where the sill plate of a frame structure would be.  When enough water can pool outside, the water can come directly in to the home and get on top of the slab.  An exterior drainage system must be in place lower than the slab floor seam/sill plate and drained to a lower spot away from the building.  In this case, it runs across the smaller section of a blacktop parking area near a garage.