Small cracks in foundation walls are common in homes throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. Usually a side effect of the natural curing process of concrete, these cracks usually do not threaten the foundation.
However, even small cracks in a foundation can be a major problem if they leak groundwater into your basement or crawl space. If you'd like a free foundation crack repair quote, contact us today!
At Baker's Waterproofing, we recommend the FlexiSpan® Foundation Crack Repair System to repair your leaking wall cracks. It's a patented, warrantied repair that installs in just a few hours. To repair a flooding wall crack, we follow these five steps:
While leaking wall cracks must be fixed before you finish your basement, your basement walls will also need to protected from the water vapor that continually passes through concrete. Stop this moisture by installing an appropriate wall vapor barrier on basement walls before finishing!
Unlike epoxies or hydraulic cements, the special sealant used for FlexiSpan® can bond with both wet and dry concrete, and it's able to make its way into even the tiniest cracks and pores in the concrete.
Additionally, hydraulic cements, epoxies, and even polyurethane injections are not able to bend and stretch along with your foundation movement. As concrete walls expand and shrink slightly through freeze/thaw and wet/dry cycles, the bonds of these materials will fail and the crack will leak once again.
FlexiSpan® stays bonded with wall movement, and seals the crack permanently, no matter what.
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