"Lillian Riddle" wrote on 11 Feb
2005:

Block wall in the basement is bulged out a couple inches.
Horizontal crack about 30 ' long. Am getting estimates on
putting wall anchors in.

A 30 foot long crack at a bulge of several inches indicates that
you aren't too far away from a total failure of that wall, with
potentially catastrophic results for your house.

As another poster has mentioned, you need to know what is causing
the bulge. In my location, that would be a classic marine clay
problem which wall anchors will not even begin to fix.

If you haven't had a soils engineer take a look at this, you
probably should do so before undertaking any repair, unless you
know a whole lot more than you're telling us.

--
Doug Boulter

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