Everybody, Jim King back out here in "P Hill" Pleasant Hill Missouri videos yesterday my shot
showing the level up against this wall. This wall is leaning in about six inches and we brought it
back. It's perfectly vertical now and before we're down here with the video we'll come over and show
the video on the six-foot level everywhere you put it it's dead on and how we did it folks is
with just simple easy hydraulics this wall has had a previous contractor in before us and there are
systems they run bolts in here they use them like dead men and this system does work except when
they took pull this wall back to vertical they just shut the house back down on it with these
bolts running out into the yard and a plate right here and in time this wall ended up coming back
and when you spend this kind of money you know we're talking twenty thousand dollar range that
they originally spent on this it should never move after that and in this case they always
do it's a system that's been around forever and we don't do it that way with you simple physics
hydraulics it's very simple when you read the pressure on the outside of the wall we lift the
house up slightly off the top of the wall and then with these support beams in hydraulic bottle jacks
bolts up to the end of it we push the wall back to vertical it's the preparation setup that takes
all the time it took about 15 minutes to to move this back to vertical so and took three or four
days of hard work to do it so I want to show you what we've got here and I'll come back here this
right here is a system that other companies use and what they do is they they don't even salt cut
the floor there's jack hammered out what that causes a little hairline fractures you got one
right there running we can show them everywhere there's cracks it's run into the floor one right
there that's because the people that straighten this wall originally did not do it engineering
101 I mean it just I don't understand why nobody uses a quickie Soulstice all cut before they
Jack em so anyway we've got the Shella system in here that they jack into the floor they set this
little piece of plastic plastic on top of the footer okay and this holds that I saw cut here
is where my wall brace my HB is going to come up here and lock in between these four joists
to keep the wall vertical once I brought it back to vertical they didn't do that and chances are
if I didn't do that my wall would lean in too so anyway it wasn't done right the first time we do
it right the shallow system here we're tearing it out and it's not going to dry as a bone anyway in
other words they wasted the money on it got a sump pump in here we're not gonna bother it but this
little shovel of system here that a design when we started this job they had plastic sheets over
this wall they didn't repair any cracks whatsoever we've got horizontal vertical cracks running all
through this wall from end to end they didn't repair any of those they put a plastic sheet
over this and when it rains and water infiltrates through the crack it runs down it runs down behind
that will lift right there because look that's right here the sheet comes down here like sits
in here like this the water runs behind the sheet and it does work but for the money that
they charge for oh my gosh is just such a ripple what we do is when I put it you want moisture
under your house you don't want to take all the moisture out from underneath your house you do
that then it's going to think then it's going to think you want moisture under your basement
floor and around your footings because that keeps everything afloat when we're in a drought like in
2012 that's what everything's think there was no moisture in the ground and so we they call King
tears would come back and raise these houses like anyway I just wanted to show everybody what what's
going on here I want to explain real quick we're not going to put a water track system in here but
this is the difference between other companies and what King Pierce does now here's what kinkers does
we will come in here in chalk align two feet out from the wall at the floor and full-cut perform
all the way through it's only three and a half point suspect we jackhammer that out then we'll
go down we'll find the footing we go down two feet below the footing and this we only put these
in everyone when there's too much water pressure under the house we don't want too much but you do
want some water moisture under your house so you put the sump up there in our water trap system
to relieve the overabundance of water pressure so I'll go on we dig it out two feet so it's a
two foot cube we wrap the trench with Petra mat filter fabric water can run through either side
we place eight inches of 3/4 inch clean Rock down to the dirt into that 2x2 2 foot deep trench well
they could have two pieces of PVC pipe four inches in diameter we'll drill a 3/8 inch hole into the
pipe on top about a foot apart and all the way through the sides about a foot apart we lay that
on top the 3/4 inch cleaner out roll length more three-quarter inch cleaner off over that when we
get it about four inches from the floor we'll rep petra met over the rock and concrete flush to the
wall like it was when it was built that way that is the proper way to do it so this little system
right here it actually does work but they're not solving the problems sometimes you pay for
this in comparison to repairing the cracks that were leaching water in it would have been much
cheaper and better for the house and better for the foundation and better for the bank account
of the home to epoxy and jet to crack rather than go through all this so bra your foundation curing
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