Basement Waterproofing - 🐊 Earth Anchor Systems- When To Use Them | Foundation Repair

A mini series on earth anchor systems, what they do, and why we sometimes use them for foundation repair. Home improvement can be complicated, but not with Dry Guys!

We use wall anchor systems when we want to straighten the wall over time. It's one of our best options. It can fix even severe problems like walls leaning in, a sheering block wall which means that it's coming away from the bottom of the foundation. Wall anchors are installed by first digging a hole on the outside of your house. It's a small hole, several feet deep. We then drill a hole on the inside of your wall about 1 inch in diameter and push a rod through out to the deep hole on the outside of your house. We will then connect it using that steel wall anchor and refill the hole on the outside. We can go around obstacles such as pipes and windows, anything that might be in the way. It's very minimal disturbance- again there's only a 1 inch hole that's drilled on the inside. The outside will get a little messy because we're digging a hole but we back-fill that and replace the sod. So there are times when we DON'T use a wall anchor system. As mentioned, we have to be able to dig outside of the active zone round your house so we need 12-16 feet away from the home. If there's things like driveways, decks, pools in the way the Geo-Lock wall anchor will not be the solution for you.