Robbins & Co. offers efficient bowed wall repair services for home owners in Beaverton, Gresham, Oregon City,Salem, The Dalles, Vancouver and surrounding areas of Portland Oregon. Need bowed wall repair in Oregon? If you said yes, then you’ve come to the right place! Robbins and Co. can provide you and your home with affordable and effective basement wall & wall crack repair so that you don’t have to worry about a wall leaning into your family’s home. Sure, you might not have a finished basement, and you might not really care if you have a bowed wall since nobody is going to see it but you. However, you shouldn’t have this kind of mentality! A bowing basement wall is dangerous for your entire home. If left untreated for too long, this wall can actually collapse in on itself. It goes without saying, that this is going to jeopardize the structural integrity of your entire home!
A lot of homeowners want to know what causes bowed walls. Typically, it’s a result of hydrostatic pressure in the soil surrounding the home. Whenever a home is built in unstable soil, such as clay soil, it can cause a lot of problems. This kind of soil easily absorbs moisture whenever it rains or when there’s melting snow on the lawn. This damp and swollen soil can put a lot of pressure on your basement walls, and this pressure is known as hydrostatic pressure. In time, the wall will start leaning basement walls into the home and look really unsightly!
Wall Anchors
Robbins and Co. can install wall anchors and wall repair systems which were engineered and manufactured by Grip-Tite®. The Grip-Tite® bowed wall repair system is an affordable and effective foundation repair solution for fixing bowing basement walls. In times past, total foundation replacement was necessary to take care of this kind of structural problem. This means that the entire home had to be lifted off the foundation, and then the existing supports had to be dug out so a new foundation could be built in its place. Fortunately, there have been many advancements in the repair industry, and now wall anchors are an effective solution for this kind of problem.
Wall anchors will be installed in stable, load-bearing strata next to the bowed foundation wall of your home. A wall plate will be installed inside the home on the effected wall. A steel rod will connect the wall plate to the wall anchor. This rod can be tightened over time to add more lateral pressure to the wall so that it will begin to straighten up back into the position where it needs to be.
Below are the advantages to having Grip-Tite® wall anchors installed on your home:
• Can be installed quickly – typically in one day or less
• Don’t require much digging
• Affordable alternative to total foundation replacement
• Can take care of even the most severe bowed walls
Please feel free to call us for more information, or to schedule an appointment for a consultation.