Foundation Repair in Stow, OH

Why Stow foundations crack and settle

Stow sits on the same heavy glacial clay that runs across Summit County, and that soil holds a lot of water. It swells when it soaks up spring rain and snowmelt, then shrinks and pulls away as it dries through the summer. Season after season that push and pull works on your foundation walls, and block basements answer it with stair-step cracks along the mortar joints, a slow inward bow, or a wall that starts to lean. We have watched it happen on Stow streets since 1985.

Water is the other half of the story here. When the ground around your home stays saturated, hydrostatic pressure builds against the outside of the walls and pushes hard on the block. Add our northeast Ohio freeze-thaw winters, where wet soil freezes, expands and grips the foundation, and you get walls that bow inward and cracks that widen a little every year. A horizontal crack running along the middle of a Stow basement wall is often the first clear sign that pressure is winning.

Not every problem is about pressure. Foundations also settle when the soil under one corner was never compacted right or slowly washes away, and that shows up as sinking, angled cracks, and doors and windows that stick on the floors above. We have repaired all of it in Stow, from bowing block walls to settling corners, and we do the work from the inside wherever we can so your yard stays intact. Family-owned since 1985, we still answer the phone ourselves.

• Free, no-pressure foundation inspection anywhere in Stow
• Straightening and lifting that does not require digging up your yard
• Transferable lifetime warranty on every repair
• Financing options to fit your budget

How we fix Stow foundations

The right fix depends on how far the wall has moved. For walls that are bowing or cracking, carbon-fiber straps and the Richtech Stabilizer System brace the wall and can straighten it back over time, all from inside the basement with no excavation.

When a corner or section of the house has settled, we underpin with steel piers driven down to stable soil to carry the load and lift the foundation back toward level. Cracks are sealed for good with epoxy and polyurethane injection. Every repair carries our transferable lifetime warranty.

• Bowing & leaning foundation walls straightened
• Settling foundations lifted with steel piers
• Stair-step & settlement cracks sealed for good
• Sticking doors & windows from foundation movement corrected