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Bowing Walls & Other Wall Problems

If the below ground foundation or basement walls in your Southern California home are leaning, rotating, bowing, or bulging, you may be in serious need of foundation repair. Specifically, you might need to stabilize the walls themselves to prevent wall failure and the structural issues that come with it.

What Causes Foundation or Basement Walls to Bow

There are several potential causes of bowing walls, including poor construction or overloading.

The most common cause of bowing basement or foundation walls, however, is pressure being exerted on the wall by the soil outside. Usually this takes the form of hydrostatic pressure, or pressure caused by water within the soil.

As the pressure increases, either because of water pooling near your foundation or freeze-thaw cycles, it can become too much for the wall to withstand, so the wall ends up cracking horizontally and beginning to bow inward at the crack link

How to Fix Bowing Walls

Bowing walls can be stabilized the same way we stabilize retaining walls, with helical tiebacks. The tiebacks are attached by a plate to the interior of the wall. The tiebacks are screwed into the ground horizontally, with the helical plates providing a counter to the force pushing in on the walls.

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