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Basement Wall Repair

Screw anchors can help prevent wall movement by holding the wall when soil swells and the resulting pressure pushes against the wall.

Retaining walls can be designed using screw anchors with a modest increase in cost. Proven and building code accepted, these anchors will keep retaining walls from moving.

Basement walls can be repaired using helical screw anchors. This is accomplished by drilling a small hole for the anchor rod to pass through the basement wall, and then excavating a hole outside to place the bearing plate. A small high torque motor then rotates the screw anchor system into the soil. Once depth and predetermined torque is achieved, the anchor is terminated and a plate is mounted inside the basement wall to hold the wall in place. If the wall needs to be moved, then sufficient soil must be removed to allow the wall to move.

The solution to your foundation problems comes from the world leader in screw anchor development. CHANCE anchoring systems, widely used since 1907 in thousands of construction projects, brings the finest in materials, service and quality to your foundation. All dealer/representatives are thoroughly trained and certified in installation procedures and are supported by the extensive technical-support services of CHANCE.

Sinking foundations, cracked and buckled walls and uneven floors are problems commonly faced annually by some quarter-million homeowners. Homes and other structures situated on unstable soils settle when their foundations are subjected to extreme moisture conditions or lack proper drainage. A shifting foundation may result in structural damage to your home and a loss of your investment.

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Engineers – We are you one stop shop for technical literature, software, and design assistance.

Located at the top of the page are various tiles providing drawings, specifications, and literature for our products. We also offer a free copy of the Helicap Software.

Welcome to HeliCAP® Helical Capacity Design Software. Version 2.0 adds exciting new features.

It’s still the only interactive software in the industry that helps you solve your tension and compression project requirements with helical anchors. It performs powerful calculations on your site soil parameters to help you build better and faster. Use it for designing foundations, tiebacks, soil nails, heavy guyed loads.

Available on CD, it includes Help screens and Reference materials as close as your keyboard. It gives you prompts to maintain control over essential criteria to effect the same process CHANCE® anchor-application engineers employ daily to analyze problems and specify solutions.

To Get Your Copy, please contact our office and we can provide you instructions to get the software.

Chance Civil Construction

Click Here to watch a short video on Chance’s Civil Construction division and their dedication to their customers.

Since 1912, Chance has been the international leader in earth anchoring. Our helical piles are used worldwide to secure residential and commercial buildings, tower foundations, heavy equipment foundations and many other deep foundation applications. CHANCE® helical piles are approved by all national building code agencies.

Heavy Construction

Whether you are needing compression or tension loads to secure your structure, we can help.

Helical Concepts, Inc. can provide design assistance to your heavy commercial projects.

  • Commercial New Construction
  • Commercial Remedial Repair
  • Tiebacks
  • Soil Nails using the Chance Soil Screw System
  • Pipelines
  • Mooring