MidAmerica Basement Systems Before & After Photos

Room additions are great when you are looking to increase your home’s square footage, but down the road, issues can arise. Over the years, the ground under the addition starts to settle and shift, causing the addition to sink and slope from the rest of the home. MidAmerica Basement Systems offer a solution to your sinking addition. PolyLevel is a simple, effective lifting solution that fills the voids under your concrete slab to lift and level the addition back to its original position. The PolyLevel system uses small injection holes, roughly the size of a dime, that go unnoticed once job is complete. PolyLevel is the only “right” solution to lift and level concrete of all types.

Bowing walls can produce horizontal cracks from the pressure of the soil on the foundation. Hydrostatic pressure and frost cause a lot of pressure against the foundation, pushing inward on the walls, causing them to bow. A PowerBrace system from MidAmerica Basement Systems provides a permanent and stable foundation support. The patented I-beams allows tightening on the system, over time, improving the failing foundation wall(s). Properly installing the PowerBrace system requires a professional reinforcement method to properly distribute the load, protecting and preventing any further home damage. Without the proper load calculations, floor systems and joists will become ruined, causing new damage to the floor system, and allowing the foundation to worsen.

Roberta was ready to put her home on the market, when her realtor insisted on fixing the cracked and unlevel walkway to the front door. While looking around at her options, Roberta came across the PolyLevel system offered by MidAmerica Basement Systems. Similar, but more effective than mudjacking, PolyLevel is injected under the concrete to lift and raise sunken concrete, allowing for cracks to realign. PolyLevel’s light weight foam precisely fills and lifts concrete, while providing a more permanent solution than typical mudjacking. After the job was complete, Roberta had a walkway that looked brand new, giving her curb appeal a much nicer look, and ready for the market.

Betty is a former customer that was noticing water seeping in the foundation walls of her basement. The water had nowhere to go, causing it to pool on the floor instead of reaching the sump pump to be discharged. It was proposed to her by MidAmerica Basement Systems that she have CleanSpace and WaterGuard installed to address the new issue. CleanSpace provides a vapor barrier between the wall and basement, preventing moisture from entering the area and helping direct water to the WaterGuard. WaterGuard was installed around the perimeter of the floor and wall joint to collect the water that we seeping in from the walls. Once it collects into the WaterGuard, it can be directed to the sump pump, and properly discharged.

Finishing a basement before it is waterproofed is never a good choice. At some point the floors and walls will begin to leak, ruining the basement. As for Aj and Pat, this was just the case. The paneling that had be placed on the walls was hiding a leaking issue, slowly causing the finished walls to warp and rot. They contacted MidAmerica Basement Systems to have their situation looked at. It was addressed that a foundation crack was causing the walls to leak and ruin the walls. A WaterGuard system was installed along the perimeter of the basement to collect any and all seeping water. A TripleSafe sump was also installed to discharge water out of the home.