Cracks that form in a concrete wall particularly a basement wall due to settlement frost heave or ground movement can be either structural or non structural.
How to repair an old basement concrete wall.
To permanently patch the crack we used an epoxy injection system from polygem called the liquid concrete repair kit 60.
The wall will not be as high as the old wall since access is necessary at the top to work the wet concrete but you can add concrete blocks later for a finished look.
Injecting a typical wall crack with an epoxy or urethane resin is done under pressure pushing the material from the inside all the way to the outside.
Step 1 clean and prepare the cracked area.
If the cracked area is very large you may want to consider going for a complete concrete replacement as the integrity of the structure may have already been.
We repaired a foundation wall which had an 8 ft long crack that leaked water into the basement during periods of heavy rainfall.
The methods discussed in this article can be used to repair minor non structural cracks.
Use an epoxy injection system for basement wall crack repair.
3 pour an exterior wall.
How to repair spalling concrete walls when it comes to repairing a spalling concrete wall early detection will go a long way to save you expensive repairs and lots of hard work.