Symptoms of Stem Wall Failure: Flaking Paint
Flaking Paint is the most common and most confusing symptom when there is stem wall failure because it is easy to blame other facts such as water, sunlight, or even time, but in reality, the one to blame is corrosion.
Symptoms of Stem Wall Failure: Horizontal Cracks in Stem Wall
If there is a problem, every problem has symptoms, and every symptom has causes, and in this case, is not different for example... when there are horizontal cracks in a concrete stem wall; it means that the corrosion began in the rebar, and then it spread to the rest of the stem wall components.
How Can We Prevent Our Stem Wall From Failing?
One thing everyone should do is to do not to plant flowers or any type of plant right next to the foundation of the house because it will damage the foundation along with the stem wall by producing corrosion and creating foundation heave problems.
Symptoms of Stem Wall Failure: Spalling Concrete
Spalling concrete is the last, and the worst of the stem wall symptoms to appear, and the main problem with this one is that when the stem wall gets to this point, it means that most of the stem wall components will need to get replaced.
Stem Wall Repair Process: Removing and Replacing
At the stem of the process, the old and rusting rebar is getting removed while the new one will get installed tight after.
Stem Wall Repair Process: Exposing Damaged Components
In this step, our concrete experts are removing all the concrete to see how damaged the stem wall components are and see what they can save or what they need to replace.
Stem Wall Repair Process: Rebar
As seen in this picture, the rebar got replaced, and now our concrete experts can move to the next step.