Woods Basement Systems, Inc. Before & After Photos

A basement wall in Moscow Mills, MO, was unstable and needed to be addressed. This was causing distress to the homeowner, so they decided to give Woods a call. To solve this issue, GeoLock™ was used. These wall anchors will stabilize the walls and can even be tightened over time in case anything shifts. With this system in place, the homeowner can rest easy knowing their basement walls are in great shape. 

This Labadie, Missouri home's concrete foundation slab was severely damaged and in desperate need of attention. Along with damage to the interior floors of the home, the outdoor driveway was also badly sunken and damaged. To fix it, a Woods Basement Systems team injected PolyLevel, an expanding composite foam, underneath the concrete slab. Because of the quick-drying properties of PolyLevel, the driveway was level and ready to be walked and driven on in just 30 minutes!

This Gray Summit, Missouri home's concrete-block basement walls were badly cracked and slightly bowing in places. The homeowner was quite concerned about this and worried that letting the cracks go unaddressed for much longer might lead to a total wall collapse. With this in mind, Woods Basement Systems was called in. A team installed several GeoLock wall anchors, supports that function by attaching anchors buried deep in the firm soil far from the home to steel plates on the interior surface of the foundation walls, throughout the space. These anchors effectively pull the walls outward over time and totally prevent further movement and cracking.

Kelly M and Gabriel W were concerned when they noticed that their basement walls were beginning to bow. So, they decided to call Woods Basement Systems. System Design Specialist Brenton K was able to come up with a solution to the problem.

Foreman Jeremy R Installed a Geo-Lock Wall Anchor, shown above, in Kelly and Gabriel’s basement. The Wall Anchor has two ends, one will attach to a stable level of soil away from the house, the other end will attach to the basement walls. The device can be tightened and will be able to straighten the walls overtime.

The history of basement foundation wall crack repairs goes something like this:

In the past, contractors would chisel out a crack into a larger "V" shape and fill it with hydraulic cement. Injection epoxy used to be the product of choice, but more recently, urethane is a common solution. 

For the corner crack in this Wentzville, Missouri basement, we decided to inject urethane into the crack.  The first picture shows how messy urethane injection may be.  We did two different repairs on this particular wall crack because midway down the wall, there was a larger opening letting a maximum amount of water leak into the basement even during a light rainfall.  We customize the right repair for whatever problem we find in a basement to guarantee a dry below-grade space.