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The walls are block. I believe he said they were haydite blocks. I think I am going with the helical piers. They come with a lifetime warranty and I don't think will look as bad as i-beams. I am also having a french drain installed.

Well I had another foundation company come out today. He agreed with the first company, that the wall was not leaning too much and didn't need to be rebuilt. He thought the wall was leaning too much to be fixed with just Ibeams. So he recommended three helical piers. He said they would come...

Not rebuilding a wall because a house is old seems like a non sequitur to me, but I'm not a foundation guy. I think his point was, if it has only moved that much in 80 years, it probably doesn't need to be replace. I called another foundation company, so I'm getting a third opinion.

My basement wall developed about a 1/4 inch crack running halfway up the wall . About a 10 foot section of the wall has started to lean. It leans in about 1-2 inches at the worst part. I had an engineer to come look at it. He recommended some drainage changes outside. He said the 10 foot...