Bowing & leaning walls are most often caused by lateral pressure from expansive "wet clay" soil, hydrostatic pressure, or frost heaving in colder temperatures. Unattended bowed walls can lead to moisture damage, pest infestations, unhealthy conditions, and most dangerously, collapsed walls. Bowing walls in your home or property are something to take seriously, and our crew at Arrow Foundation Repair can provide you with a quick & cost-effective solution. We use a few different repair methods, based on the evaluation and needs of your project.

Those include: 

Bowed Wall Strapping Kit

Arrow Foundation Repair proudly uses American-made, Rhino Carbon Fiber™ Products to reinforce structure. For interior bowed walls, we use the patented Rhino Carbon Fiber™ Bowed Wall Repair Kit which is installed vertically across the bowing wall to reinforce the wall and restore stability. This industry-trusted solution is ideal for home and property owners, as it is quickly installable and leaves the surface smooth and flat, making the repair nearly invisible after a painted-finish. 

This solution is used when the bowed wall is made of block or poured concrete, and is the most minimally invasive option for repairing a bowed wall.

I-Beam Braces

Steel I-beams are used for repairing bowed walls by vertically installing the top of the beam above the basement wall, and anchoring the bottom of the beam to the foundation floor. Once the beam is then tightened across the wall using a bracket, the wall is stabilized and no further buckling can occur. 

This solution is most commonly used to strengthen a wall that has experienced more minor bowing, but it is also an industry-trusted system, making it one of the more common routes for repair that we recommend. 

Helical Tiebacks

Tiebacks are screwed into the soil horizontally through a small hole in your foundation wall. Anchors are attached to the interior of the wall, applying tension to straighten the wall and keep it from bowing or leaning in the future.

This is an ideal system for repair because helical tiebacks provide opposite pressure to the hydrostatic pressure in the soil which caused the wall to bow in the first place. Upon excavation for installation of tiebacks other methods are often used to relieve future pressure on the wall. This method also offers the potential to straighten the wall back to its original position

Soil Anchors

This solution is similar to helical tieback installation but uses a steel anchor placed deep in the soil away from the wall as an anchor rather than being driven into the soil from inside like a helical. Like helical tiebacks these soil anchors can be used to straighten a bowed wall back to its original position.

For installation of this system, heavy-duty, galvanized earth anchors are embedded in stable, undisturbed soil outside your foundation wall. Each anchor is connected by a steel rod to a wall plate that provides clamping pressure against the inside of the foundation wall.