The Basement Doctor of Cincinnati Before & After Photos

Some concrete pads had settled around this home in Cleves, OH, causing some gaps to form. If you look closely at where the pad meets the brick wall in the before picture, you can see the pad had sunken by about 2 inches. We raised the concrete slab using our PolyLevel foam, which was injected underneath the slab to jack it up. Our PolyLevel is lightweight, clean, and stable, allowing our technicians to work out some troubling concrete problems relatively easy. 

This poured foundation in Cleves, OH, was caving inwards, causing horizontal cracks to form. This foundation was also leaking due to massive amounts of hydrostatic pressure weighing in on the basement from outside the foundation in the expansive clay soil. We repaired this basement by waterproofing it with a sump pump, interior drainage tile, and a vapor barrier. We then stabilized the bowing walls with our PowerBrace system. The result is a stable, dry, fresh basement.

The owner of this home in Harrison, OH, gave us a call because they noticed a large horizontal crack had developed across a wall in their basement. The homeowner caught their crack very early on in the failure process, which allowed us to quote them our CarbonArmor repair method. Our carbon straps are a relatively new technology, and they allow us to stabilize walls without having to do any drilling, excavating, or jackhammering. However, they can only be used in certain situations where the wall failure hasn't advanced too far. They are installed by applying a strong epoxy resin to the wall, adhering the straps to the wall, adding brackets to secure to the straps to the ceiling, and then covering the straps again with an epoxy topcoat. These straps are very thin and can be finished with a paint, which homeowners love. Because they take up little space and can be painted, homeowners can either add a finished wall system, or just conceal them with paint. 

Concrete is a very heavy material, and when you have thick slabs sitting on top of unstable soil, you could see some pretty large cracks as a result. In the before picture, if you look just under the blue line, you can see how the slab is slanted downwards towards the left. We were able to level the slab by injecting the left side with our PolyLevel foam. Our foam gets injected underneath the concrete, and is strong enough to raise the slab back to where it originally was. We then seal everything with our concrete sealers, which will cover everything up. 

This Oxford basement had an old sump pump, an inefficient dehumidifier, and a moldy stone foundation. We replaced the sump pump with a SuperSump, upgraded the dehumidifier to a SaniDry Sedona, added drainage matting across the floor, and encapsulated the walls and floor with CleanSpace, transforming the space into a clean, dry, and healthy basement.