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Horizonal Movement on Exterior Wall

This structure has a foundation wall with horizontal cracks. This type of cracking tells our Peak Structural System Design Specialist that the wall has pressure coming against it from the side rather than from below. Our Colorado soil is unique in the way it responds to weather conditions and expands and contracts. That expansion and contraction is the pressure that pushes against the foundation wall. In this instance it is placing horizontal pressure against the wall resulting in horizontal cracking.

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Uploaded on May 18, 2011
Taken on January 19, 2008