Photo Album: Wall Anchors Help Repair Wall in Otto, NC Basement

This homeowner started to get concerned when they started noticing some cracks forming in their basement walls. This could have been a worse issue if the homeowner would have written these cracks off as nothing. This photo album shows off the progression of the job that was done here.

Basement Before Installation

Here is the main wall in the basement that was being pushed out by the pressure on the other side of the wall, which was caused by the hydro-static pressure built up in the ground. This is a wider view of the area, but you can still see a few cracks along the wall. However, there is any extremely obvious crack about three bricks from the top. This was something that we definitely wanted to correct.

Crew Working on Holes for Wall Anchor Plates

This picture is pretty self-explanatory, but it shows a couple of our crew members working on the holes to place the wall anchor plates in. As you can see, the crew laid out a tarp, so that when the holes are excavated, the dirt does not disturb the area (grass/rocks/etc.) around it.

Finished Anchor Plate Holes

Here is the area where all of the plates will be installed for the outside portion of the project. As you can see, several holes have been excavated, one for each anchor plate. You can actually see the anchor plates laying on the ground to the right of the holes.

Drilling for the Connecting Rod

Here is another photo of our great crew members working together in order to drill a hole to the holes that they already dug out earlier. A metal rod will be run through this hole and is actually what connects the anchor plates together and makes the whole system work. This must be done for each set of wall anchors.

Outside Wall Anchor Plate

Here is the installed wall anchor plate, just before it got covered up. As you can see, these are usually installed at least a couple feet in the ground, so there is no chance that this will be accidentally dug up or damaged. The wide "t" shape gives the wall anchor more surface area, which gives the plate more strength to hold to weight of the wall.

Close Up of Crack

Here is a close up of one of the cracks in the basement that we needed to take care of. As you can see, this certainly is not a small crack, however the wall anchors will do a great job of getting this wall back towards its initial position. The great thing about wall anchors is that once they are installed, the wall won't bow any farther inwards.

Crew Working Hard

Here is another picture of the crew working hard on installing the wall anchors. They have already installed the outside wall anchors, and now it is just a matter of installing the inside ones and then tightening everything up, which is when the cracks really begin to go away.

Installed Wall Anchors

Here is towards the end of the job, when the wall anchors were completely installed and only needed to be tightened to finish the job. As you can see, the wall anchors are installed equally far apart so that there is not too much pressure on any one wall anchor.

Close Up Wall Anchor

Here is a close up of one of the installed wall anchors in the basement. They are designed to be as least intrusive as possible, but still being able to provide the proper amount of support to the wall.

Installed Wall Anchors and Dehumidifier

Here is another picture that shows off a few of the wall anchors that were installed, as well as the dehumidifier that was put in this basement. The humidity level of the basement was higher than it should be, so the homeowner went with one of our dehumidifiers in order to keep the humidity down.