Repairing Bowed Basement Walls

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About Fortress Stabilization Systems

Unstable soils are a basements worst enemy, whether the antagonists are expansive clay or compressible or improperly compacted fill. They launch a sneak attack by leavingfoundations unevenly supported, triggering settlement and cracking. They can also barrage basement walls with lateral loads, causing walls to become bowed inward. As manyhomeowners can attest, the battle scars from all of this damage can be devastating to real estate values.

Fortunately, its possible to rescue settled foundations by using hydraulically driven piles or piers. But what about those bowed, cracked walls?How do you repair bowed basement walls and salvage their structural strength? How do you prevent further movement without turning the basement into a war zone of steel support beams?

Fortress Stabilization Systems of Dexter, Mich., has developed a new strategy for fighting bowed walls—an externally bonded reinforcing system consisting of an epoxy-impregnated carbon fiber/Kevlar mesh not much thicker than paper but with a tensile strength superior to steel. Introduced about three years ago, the patent-pending method has been used to repair and stabilize thousands of foundation walls.