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723 S. Sierra Madre St
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
(719) 260-7070
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Tuckpointing
Foundation Maintenance—it’s not something that we
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usually think about, but it’s especially important in older homes with brick and mortar foundations. Mortar’s lifespan is significantly less than the surrounding brick, so it will crumble away as it ages. This opens up the door for all sorts of structural problems. Checking your mortar is part of proper foundation maintenance and can greatly extend the life of your vintage foundation. So what do you do if the mortar is crumbling away? You replace it—this maintenance process is known as “tuckpointing”. How do you know if your stone foundation could benefit from this process? Simple, if the mortar between the stones on your older foundation is brittle or crumbles when you apply light to moderate pressure with a blunt object, or if you see voids where mortar has already crumbled and fallen out over time, then you can be certain that the mortar has reached the end of its service life and needs to be replaced. This is where Tuckpointing comes in.
The idea of tuckpointing is really rather simple, and consists of three steps: ? First, old stone mortar is physically removed from the joints between the stones by scraping. ? Second, the joints between the stones are cleaned with compressed air or hand brushing. ? Third, new mortar is injected under force into these voids, and the surface of the new mortar joints is smoothed and finished. Another benefit to tuckpointing is that it’s considered to be a non-structural process. This means that you don’t have to worry about open holes or large construction issues. Tuckpointing is most appropriately used when a stone wall is not significantly bowed or showing other signs of significant structural distress, and generally does not require a building permit or inspections by the building authorities. In many cases, proper tuckpointing can enhance the performance and extend the useful life of a stone foundation for many years without robbing your vintage home of its charm and unique construction.
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Shotcrete
In certain cases, a process known as “shotcrete” m
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ay offer additional advantages and cost savings over a sister wall approach. With shotcrete, no wall forms are needed, and the job may therefore be streamlined even further. Usually, reinforcing steel mesh is installed against a failing dirt embankment, or in some cases, an old foundation wall. Then, a relatively dry concrete mix is blown or “shot” onto the area with a high volume of compressed air, and may be built up to several inches in thickness, depending on the specific conditions and needs of the job.
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Sister Wall
A new wall is built to come alongside of an existi
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ng, failing foundation wall and provides the necessary reinforcement to do the job that the original wall is no longer capable of. The process typically involves formal engineering design. Most often, sister wall designs call for reinforcing steel in the wall, and require the construction of one-sided concrete wall forms. Once wall steel and forms are in place, concrete is pumped into the forms and allowed to set. The forms may then be removed, and the job stands completed. Sister walls generally do require a building permit and inspections by the building authorities.
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Wall Anchors
Wall Anchors are solutions designed for cracked, b
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owing, and bucking walls. The Wall Anchor System uses anchoring plates and rods to stabilize the wall and counteract pressure being exerted against it—without the cost and expense of rebuilding the entire wall. The technicians insert steel anchor rods through the wall to an anchor in the outside earth. Finally, steel wall plates will secure the rods to the inside basement wall. Anchors will be placed at different locations along the wall and rod extenders will be used to avoid the deck, flowerbeds, and other landscaping. In fact, the entire process takes less than a day on average. This home and lawn are left in almost the same condition as when our technicians arrived—without the bowing walls of course! These rods and anchors can then be adjusted as time goes on to continue providing the structural correction required.
Wall Anchors WILL:
? Secure a bowing wall by means of horizontal reinforcement
? Straighten a bowed wall immediately, with additional excavating
? Be able to be installed in as little as one day, without large hydraulic equipment being brought into the basement
? Predictably perform their function without depending on an epoxy adhesive the way that carbon fiber strips do (which have been documented to fail sometimes)
Wall Anchors MAY:
? Straighten a bowed wall gradually over time, by tightening the torque nuts during dry seasons of the year
Wall Anchors WILL NOT:
? Provide protection against vertical settling (their reinforcement is wholly horizontal in nature)
? Provide protection against surface water or groundwater incursion
? Take up interior space in the basement the way vertical steel I-beams do
? Place additional stresses on the main floor joist system of the house, the way that vertical steel I-beams do ? Require 15’-30’ of available depth in the yard the way helical tiebacks do
? Require large holes (8”-10” diameter) to be cut into the foundation walls, the way helical tiebacks do
How Wall Anchors are Installed in 7 Basic Steps:
Step 1: Outside, sod is removed and set aside.
Step 2: Ground is drilled to proper depth for anchor.
Step 3: Anchor is properly placed in earth.
Step 4: Anchor is set.
Step 5: Inside, threaded rod driven into anchor
Step 6: Faceplate added and tension adjusted.
Step 7: Hole refilled and sod replaced—No mess! Faceplate is flush to wall, so it’s easy to finish the basement without a trace!
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Helical Piers
Today, more and more homes are being built on unst
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able soils, such as the ones that you learned about in previous chapters. Between expansive and hydro-compactable soils and subsidence, foundations are pushed and pulled, creating movement. Each year, thousands of homeowners are faced with evaluating and repairing foundation problems. Thankfully, this means that there are reliable, engineered solutions available. So what exactly is available and is it the right solution for your structural problems? Since the root of structural problems is the soil, the first two solutions deal with taking the foundation’s weight off of unstable soils and placing it on bedrock or other stable soil—these solutions are called push piers and helical piers.
Helical Piers WILL:
? Perform it’s job in most soil conditions for a designed life in excess of 100 years
? Allow for installation on relatively older, weaker, or lighter foundation types
? Allow for installation as a pre-construction (or new construction) bearing system in poor soils
? Allow for a horizontal installation as a “tie-back” system to provide resistance against land creep in hillside areas
? With a few rare exceptions, require exterior excavation, with destruction to surrounding landscaping or paving
? Provide a lifetime warranty, transferable for the first 25 years, that vertical movement in the piered areas will not occur
Helical Piers MAY:
? Allow for the likelihood of lifting a structure to a flatter, more level condition
? Allow for the possibility of closing or shrinking existing cracks in brick, stucco, sheetrock, or other interior or exterior finishes
? Allow for the re-alignment of sticking doors or windows, and the straightening of leaning chimneys
Helical Piers WILL NOT:
? Guaranty that perfectly flat or level final conditions will be achieved
? Provide lateral (horizontal) restraint to a bowing foundation wall (unless specifically installed in “tie-back” mode)
? Improve the water tightness or lower the moisture level in a basement
How Piers are Installed in 6 Basic Steps:
Step 1: Outside, sod and landscaping around the home is removed and set aside.
Step 2: Soil is removed until the footing of the concrete foundation is revealed.
Step 3: Foundation pier anchoring brackets of heavy, industrial-strength steel are attached to the home’s footings.
Step 4: Rugged steel piers are hydraulically driven down to solid bedrock or equal-load bearing strata.
Step 5: The weight of the home, anchored to the steel brackets, is carefully transferred from unstable soil to rock-solid piers.
Step 6: After an engineer’s approval, the soil around the home is replaced and landscaping can be returned to its original location.
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Push Piers
Today, more and more homes are being built on unst
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able soils, such as the ones that you learned about in previous chapters. Between expansive and hydro-compactable soils and subsidence, foundations are pushed and pulled, creating movement. Each year, thousands of homeowners are faced with evaluating and repairing foundation problems. Thankfully, this means that there are reliable, engineered solutions available. So what exactly is available and is it the right solution for your structural problems? Since the root of structural problems is the soil, the first two solutions deal with taking the foundation’s weight off of unstable soils and placing it on bedrock or other stable soil—these solutions are called push piers and helical piers.
Push Piers WILL:
? Allow the deepest penetration of any steel pier type. ? Allow for the possibility of low impact interior installations (typically, with far less collateral damage than the exterior approach)
? Provide a lifetime warranty, transferable for the first 25 years, that vertical movement in the piered areas will not occur
? Perform it’s job in most soil conditions for a designed life in excess of 100 years
Push Piers MAY:
? Allow for the likelihood of lifting a structure to a flatter, more level condition
? Allow for the possibility of closing or shrinking existing cracks in brick, stucco, sheetrock, or other interior or exterior finishes
? Allow for the re-alignment of sticking doors or windows, and the straightening of leaning chimneys
Push Piers WILL NOT:
? Guaranty that perfectly flat or level final conditions will be achieved
? Provide lateral (horizontal) restraint to a bowing foundation wall
? Improve the water tightness or lower the moisture level in a basement
How Piers are Installed in 6 Basic Steps:
Step 1: Outside, sod and landscaping around the home is removed and set aside.
Step 2: Soil is removed until the footing of the concrete foundation is revealed.
Step 3: Foundation pier anchoring brackets of heavy, industrial-strength steel are attached to the home’s footings.
Step 4: Rugged steel piers are hydraulically driven down to solid bedrock or equal-load bearing strata.
Step 5: The weight of the home, anchored to the steel brackets, is carefully transferred from unstable soil to rock-solid piers.
Step 6: After an engineer’s approval, the soil around the home is replaced and landscaping can be returned to its original location.
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2/25/2009, 7:55 AM
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