The Basement Doctor of Cincinnati Before & After Photos

This homeowner in Burlington, KY, had a leaky crack in their foundation and some sagging floor boards above their basement. As it turns out, the crack appeared due to hydrostatic pressure pressing the wall inwards and the floorboards sank due to a failing main beam. We first sealed the leaky crack by using our FlexiSpan system. This required us to chip and clean out the crack, dig a trench at the base of the crack, apply a layer of epoxy to the crack, run a foam strip over the first layer of epoxy down into the trench, apply a final layer of epoxy, fill the trench with gravel, cover the top of the trench with a fresh concrete layer, and apply a BrightWall panel over the entire system. To stabilize the lateral movement of the wall we braced the wall with our PowerBrace beams. To stabilize the floor boards, we installed a SmartJack post underneath the sagging part of the main beam right near the crack repair.

Do you have a concrete slab thats needs lifted? Here at The Basement Doctor, we can solve the problems that soil wash out can cause. In this case, soil had completely washed away from this front porch, and was close to completely cracking. Instead, we filled the void underneath with our PolyLevel foam. 

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.