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Failed Rebar
When a basement is built, they use snap ties to hold the forms and the rebar together. Sometimes, water migrates through an opening in the concrete around one of the ends of the snap ties and reaches the rebar. The water causes the rebar to expand—up to seven times the original size—causing the concrete to blow out.
Danger Videos 231-245
Foundation Repair and Waterproof Solutions Waterproof Solutions Residential has been helping keep St. Louis dry for more than 20 years. We don’t believe in short term patches. Instead, we fix the damage, and we fix the problem. We carefully evaluate your property to...
Cast in Place Foundation With Soldier Beams
Today we’re working with a cast in place foundation. The 38-foot long basement wall has moved laterally and we need to stick some soldier beams on it.
To Pier or Not to Pier
So there was a patch on a wall using hydraulic cement. Below that, there’s a break in the footing. And there’s no associated breaks in the rest of the foundation, so it’s in a very bound up kind of situation.
Managing Water-Foundation Repair
Today we’re in a cast-in-place foundation. We’ve got some cracks and possible weak spots in the concrete.
Fieldstone Foundation Repair
The Problem We're in a Fieldstone Foundation today. They put Drylok...
Crack Behind Electric Panel
This is the house from our January 15th post. I meant to cover this in the last video. But we’re going to talk about it today because it’s important. We found a crack behind the electric panel. Let’s get into it. The Problem There is a crack behind the...
Drain Tile System Needed
Drain Tile System Needed It's a typical cast in place foundation that doesn't have...
Rebar Break
All right here, we can see the rust coming through, and this...
Inspection Process is Paramount
Inspection Requires an Experienced Foundation Specialist Again, from Waterproofs Solutions. You know, it's one thing to buy a house that has a bad drainage system in it, it's another thing for the system that was put in it to be illegal and not detected by the home...
No Plastic on Basement Walls
Hi, this is Stephen, Waterproof Solutions. Just a quick tip, you know, out of sight does not mean it should be out of mind. When you put plastic up over a cast and place foundation, which is a concrete. Block, stone, I don't care what it is. Look at the bugs....
Foundation Repair – Hydrostatic Issues
The Problems Thanks for having me out. What we're in today is a cast in place foundation, poured concrete. It has issues with not only hydrostatic issues and I'm not sure what this anomaly in the floor is. But this over here, we'll come back to that, this over here....
Danger Videos 216-230
Foundation Repair and Waterproof Solutions Waterproof Solutions Residential has been helping keep St. Louis dry for more than 20 years. We don’t believe in short term patches. Instead, we fix the damage, and we fix the problem. We carefully evaluate your property to...
Basement Repair in Kirkwood
Basement Repair in Old House It's a 1929 house. It's poured concrete, as we can see here, we can also see...
Foundation Assessment
Foundation Problem So we're in the house. It looks like we've got a little bit of an issue here. Go ahead and inject that. Anything coming over the top of the wall, though, obviously is going to have to be dealt with in a little different manner. As we make our way...
Danger Videos 200-215
Cast-in-Place Foundation
The Problem All right, so here's three-twenty, they've got this post, put it here. This temp post that weight is supposed to be on the Cast-in-Place Foundation, a.k.a. poured concrete. We see the break in. It's happened after this thing's been smudged with epoxy. We...
Stone Foundation
The Problem So we're outside of your house right now, and what we talked about is the Stone Foundation and the brickwork and tuckpointing in the negative and positive end. We're going to talk about that when we get inside. But out here, after we collect the water,...
Danger Videos 184-199
Foundation Repair and Waterproof Solutions Waterproof Solutions Residential has been helping keep St. Louis dry for more than 20 years. We don’t believe in short term patches. Instead, we fix the damage, and we fix the problem. We carefully evaluate your property to...
Cast-in-Place Foundation: Fixing a Fix
The Problem All right, so I'm in what's called a cast in place foundation, concrete walls. "Cast in place" meaning it's cast between two forms. That wall was set on a footing, which is twice the width of that wall and the floor was set on part of the footing. These...
