Ayers Basement Systems Before & After Photos

Elizabeth’s Jackson, MI, home faced foundation settlement issues, with cracked stone walls and failing support poles in the dirt floor basement. By applying durable shotcrete wall reinforcement and installing SmartJack® supports to lift and stabilize the floors, her foundation is now secure, and her home is protected for the long term.

Longtime Portage homeowners Rande and his wife were tired of running up and down stairs to vacuum up water every time it rained. Water intrusion beneath their favorite living space affected comfort and indoor air quality. Ayers installed a new egress window connected to a WaterGuard® perimeter drainage system via WellDuct®, ensuring any water entering the window drains directly into a SuperSump® sump pump. We also added CleanSpace® vapor barrier to protect the walls and improve air quality. Now, the couple can enjoy a dry, healthy basement without the hassle of emergency cleanups.

Any diversions from a flat surface in your yard - hills, valleys, slants - can cause headaches when it comes to water. Our customer called because the slant to their driveway was helping water drain toward the house instead of away - sometimes it seemed to be coming right from the floor.

By installing TrenchDrain in the driveway, water can drain through the grated opening and divert to an outlet in the yard, far away from the house.

Our customer called after buying a house and realizing that the existing sump pump was not up to snuff. We replaced it with a TripleSafe sump pump and installed IceGuard on the discharge lines to protect against freezing lines next winter.

We received a call from these Jackson, MI residents complaining about a bulging basement wall. Our system design specialist immediately identified the problem as a bowing wall, a common issue for foundations caused by added pressure from surrounding soil. Thanks to a wide variety of products, we can treat bowing walls interiorly or exteriorly.  After meeting with one of our system design specialists, the couple decided they didn’t want to go through the excavation and invasiveness of an exterior solution and elected to install the PowerBrace system inside of their basement.

PowerBrace systems work by relieving the foundation wall of pressure and transferring it over to the steel beams. The beams are bolted to the floor joists in the ceiling using an adjustable bracket that will continue to force walls back to their original positions as time passes. The bottom of the beam is then attached to the concrete foundation slab. The condition of these walls will continue to improve until that “bulge” is a thing of the past.