Basement crack repair around Bloomfield Township suggestions for a co-worker
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Anthony
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Move while they can.
The correct way isn’t cheap.
The “proper way” is to set anchors out on in the yard. Insert threaded rods/ turn buckles.
Steel plates on the basement walls. Steel anchor plates in the yard. Tighten till crack is closed and sealed.
Sometimes that don’t work, and or it causes stress in other parts of the house. Plaster walls will pop out. Etc.
if it fails, you don’t get refunded and now you get to pay to have that wall replaced.
Happed to a house I was looking at. Ended up knowing the guy that built the new “Money Pit” owners barn, that they lived in while the wall was being replaced!
The correct way isn’t cheap.
The “proper way” is to set anchors out on in the yard. Insert threaded rods/ turn buckles.
Steel plates on the basement walls. Steel anchor plates in the yard. Tighten till crack is closed and sealed.
Sometimes that don’t work, and or it causes stress in other parts of the house. Plaster walls will pop out. Etc.
if it fails, you don’t get refunded and now you get to pay to have that wall replaced.
Happed to a house I was looking at. Ended up knowing the guy that built the new “Money Pit” owners barn, that they lived in while the wall was being replaced!
I agree and that's what he wants to do versus just fixing the inside. That's why I was asking for referrals since he doesn't want just a quick fix.
mikesfastss
Club Member
Johnny quick?
camaromann
Forum Member
I re graded and the problem solved it self. After that I injected all the cracks with a polyurathane liquid that expands just because. No problems in last 5 years.
WhiteHawk
Club Member
If it is water, it should be easy to tell by two things - the grading of the land around the house, and water coming through the cracks or up through the floor. If he needs to get re-graded, I would get one of the big sod farms from up north. I used one called something like A1 Trombley and they came all the way down to Grosse Pointe with 20 yards of topsoil, 40 yards of dirty fill ,a tractor, and a ton of sod for what I thought was a crazy cheap price (like $100 a square), That was 8 years ago, so it shouldn't have gone up by much.
-Geoff
SVTSINR
Club Member
Cracks in the floor or in the wall?
I had cracks in the wall so I used high pressure epoxy injection. Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dggJsJ2f1dU
I paid roughly $250 a crack.
I had cracks in the wall so I used high pressure epoxy injection. Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dggJsJ2f1dU
I paid roughly $250 a crack.
Beigg
Club Member
the hardest part would be digging the area outside to get in at the crack. I've done a few, and it'll take a solid day to do it if there are no bushes and such to move out of the way. Material wise, if I remember right, was about 500.00. Had to plan around the weather in order to do it.
