When to straighten a leaning foundation wall.
Leaning concrete wall.
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We have a driveway with a poured concrete retaining wall that is backfilled up to about 5 feet high.
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The injection process fills the crack from top to bottom from inside to outside.
The only way to repair foundation wall cracks successfully is by the injection process.
Retaining wall repair options.
The apex of the wall sisters up to the house foundation.
Tree roots and soils are generally the cause.
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Either demolish the wall.
Due to its being built of many small pieces or blocks mortared together needs to be excavated and straightened sooner than a poured concrete foundation wall the mortar joints between the blocks are the weakest point in a concrete block foundation wall.
Is it possible to push a leaning concrete wall upright.
Block walls masonry walls will often lean some and often has cracks as well.
This is usually caused by a lack of toe nails connecting the floor joists to.
At the ends of the leaning concrete foundation wall in the area of the diagonal cracking the integrity of the wall is usually significantly compromised and requires full height bracing with steel beams along with epoxy injection of the cracks to restore the integrity of the wall.
Wall anchors can be used to shore up bowed or leaning basement walls but the same solution can be used in your retaining walls.
Foundation walls not properly secured to the floor framing.
Wall anchors can be a long lasting solution to strengthen retaining walls and actually pull them back as close to their original position as possible.
Injecting a typical wall crack with an epoxy or urethane resin is done under pressure pushing the material from the inside all the way to the outside.
In areas that experience extremely cold temperatures repeated heavy frosts can break down the concrete footings and make the wall lean.
Leaning concrete walls possible causes and repair solutions.
When this occurs the homeowner has two choices.
One of the most common problems we see with concrete foundation walls is that they are not properly secured or connected to the floor framing.