Foundation Repair for West Allis homes
West Allis was built house by house in the early and middle 1900s, and a lot of those bungalows and duplexes still sit on their original foundations. The lots are narrow. Your neighbor's driveway might be six feet from your basement wall, which leaves almost no room to dig. So when a wall in West Allis starts cracking or leaning, the repair almost always has to happen from the basement side, and that is exactly how we plan it.
Age matters here. A foundation that has ridden out a hundred Wisconsin winters has been squeezed by frost and wet clay again and again, and older block and mortar give a little more each time. We see stair-step cracks, walls that lean in at mid-height, and corners that have dropped. Duplexes add a wrinkle, because the wall you share with the other unit might need the same attention as yours.
Many families here use the basement as real living space: a bedroom, a family room, a second kitchen for the duplex upstairs. Nick or Luis will come out from our Waukesha shop, measure how far the wall has moved, and explain it plainly. Carbon fiber straps handle early bowing, steel I-beams anchored floor to joist handle the worse walls, and cracks get sealed with hydraulic cement or structural sealant. When the City of West Allis requires a permit, we pull it.
