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WALLBRACING CarbonFiberSupport System

CARBON FIBER SUPPORT SYSTEM Repairing unique soil and structural issues in Atlanta, GA.

THE PROBLEM Many homeowners experience foundation problems due in part to this region’s climate. Weather conditions such as hot summers, heavy rainfall, and high humidity, paired with other factors like loosely packed soil structures and poor drainage, can all cause home foundations to settle, expand, shrink, and crack. PRODUCTS FOR REPAIR A carbon fiber support system uses straps made of carbon and Kevlar fibers to reinforce foundation walls and stop them from bowing. We install the Fortress System, a foundation stabilization system known to outperform all others. The carbon-Kevlar straps in this system are incredibly tough and boast an industry, nearly five times stronger than steel. THE PROCESS During installation, we grind clean a section of the foundation wall from floor to ceiling to provide a clean bonding surface. Then they apply a base coat of epoxy to the cleaned section, embed the carbon-Kevlar strap into the epoxy, and further strengthen it by attaching anchors to both the top and bottom. After installation, the top anchor is post-tensioned to ensure the system is secure.

THE GOOD NEWS What makes our carbon fiber support systems so appealing, apart from their incredible strength, is that they can be installed quickly and with little disruption to your home or daily routine. Moreover, the straps are low profile and can be painted over once applied, so they’ll hardly even be noticeable and won’t detract from your basement’s appearance.

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Permanent Basement Wall Repair Best under pressure. THE ONLY SOLUTION WITH ALL THESE BENEFITS:  ICC-ES building code certification.  Lifetime warranty.  Stronger than original wall.  Carbon fiber & Kevlar system.

The Fortress Stabilization System is protected by Patent No. 7743585, 7823354, 8142102, 8367569, 9034775, 6746741, 6846537, RE39839, 9528286, 9290956, 9290957, 9790697, 3040496 and other pending patents.

Top Anchor The first company to develop a top-of-wall anchor. The Fortress top anchor is post-tensioned after installation. This ensures that the top anchor and wall are engaged under tension, and holding fast, when the job is complete. No other company has a post-tensioned wall anchor. Bolting to the rim joist is safer. The sill plate is not adequately connected to the floor joist to carry the load. The Fortress top anchor is mechanically fastened to the rim joist, not the sill plate. By connecting to the rim joist, the Fortress top anchor engages the building’s floor system, providing a stronger, more durable anchor. This prevents any movement of the basement wall. A stronger connection. Many older homes do not have enough sill plate-to-foundation wall connections to ensure that the sill plate will hold under stress. Engaging the floor system (first story floor to top of basement wall) provides the strongest, safest connection. A Complete System For A Complete Solution Bottom Anchor The best in the industry. Here’s why: The quality of the bottom anchor construction is very important. Because preventing shear requires strength, we made our bottom anchor over 5 times thicker and 125 times stiffer than the competition. In addition, we make sure that the connection to the foundation is absolutely secure. We use a dual leg solution with specific contact lengths engineered to achieve a 200% safety factor. Our bottom plate anchor is the best in the industry. The Fortress bottom anchor secures your wall from shear slide. Shear slides can occur at the bottom of masonry walls where shear forces are greatest. This inward movement of the wall is defined as shear. In typical situations the basement floor holds the bottom of your wall from moving in, but where there are excessive shear forces, the Fortress bottom anchor is needed. The bottom anchor uses the basement floor to secure the Carbon-Kevlar strap and prevents shear slides. The bottom anchor is used in both block and poured concrete walls. The best solution to bottom-of-wall anchors. The Fortress bottom anchor takes the proven American Concrete Institute recommendation for anchoring carbon fiber straps and makes it better.

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What goes into the Fortress Carbon Kevlar Strap?

Not all carbon fiber is created equal.

Before considering another carbon fiber system, ask how their fibers are arranged. Conventional manufactures commonly weave the carbon. This produces an attractive woven pattern, but this method also crimps the fibers while going over and under each other. When force is applied to a woven pattern, the bent fibers try to straighten out, which reduces effectiveness. You can see that it’s done right. Fortress has always been concerned with having the best composite performance. All strength in fiber composites is gained when the fibers are straight. Unidirectional fibers lay flat, eliminating flex when force is applied. The unidirectional method Fortress has developed creates a product twice as strong as products using woven carbon fibers. This Fortress propriety manufacturing process allows for a true unidirectional carbon product, which is the perfect tool to reinforce foundations. Exclusive open grid technology. The Fortress open grid technology (OGT) combined with epoxy rivet technology (ERT) connects to the carbon grid to form a mechanical bond to the wall. Epoxy rivet technology forms an adhesive bond between the grid and the masonry substrate which load to the carbon fiber, creating an adhesive bond as well as a mechanical “rivet” between each fiber of the grid. There are over 8,000 epoxy rivets securing a single strap to your wall. OGT and ERT are exclusive to the Fortress system.

Strongest strap available. Fortress is the strongest carbon fiber system available. Every lot produced is tested to meet our guaranteed minimum tensile strength of 234,700 psi. For full details, view the Fortress Carbon Grid Strap Design Manual on our website.

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The Only System With ICC Certification and a Lifetime Warranty

What does “ICC certified” mean? The International Code Council (ICC) was formed in the 1990s by the three major U.S. regional building code agencies and developed the current International Building Code. This code is used to protect public health and building safety throughout the United States and in countries around the world. ICC developed its Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) to certify that products intended to be installed in a home or business are safe and are building code approved. Certification by the ICC-ES means a product and its manufacturing process have been tested, evaluated and regularly audited by ICC to meet or exceed product performance reliability. Fortress obtained ICC-ES certification through a rigorous testing process performed by an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory at the University of Miami, Structures and Materials Laboratory. The ICC-ES certification identifies Fortress Stabilization Systems as a premier building product manufacturer able to produce consistent and reliable product performance. A copy of the Fortress Stabilization Systems’ ICC-ES report is located on our web site. Why does ICC certification matter? An ICC-ES approved product can be immediately identified by any code official, home inspector, or bank appraiser as building code approved. The ICC ESR report number identifies the Fortress system as approved by every local building code agency in the United States. This means a Fortress certified product will pass every building code inspection so you can have peace of mind that it’s safe for your home. Fortress’ transferable lifetime warranty together with ICC-ES certification will show potential buyers and lending institutions that you installed the best system available if you ever decide to sell your home. Trying to sell your home without a building code approved system could be a very costly mistake. Make sure you use only an ICC-ES, building code approved product.

Proudly made in the USA. The Fortress top anchor, bottom anchor and Carbon-Kevlar straps are made in the USA at our 25,000-sq.ft. manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan.

184 West 64th Street, Holland, MI 49423 Tel: 616-355-1421 Fax: 616-355-1428 Email: Solutions@FortressStabilization.com

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Basement walls have a tremendous amount of compression strength, meaning they can easily handle the weight of a house. However, they can quickly begin to fail when too much lateral load is placed against them, such as soil pressure coming from the exterior of your home. Increases in moisture in the soil from melting snow or rain can place a load on your wall beyond what it can handle, which often leads to cracking, bowing, tipping, and shearing. Other factors such as tree roots or construction on the exterior of the wall can also contribute to wall failures. In block walls, you will typically see horizontal cracks, step cracks, and bowing in the middle of the wall as early signs of a problem. Bottom shearing is often the next indicator that your wall is in jeopardy. In a poured wall, the problems will usually appear with horizontal or angled cracks, and leaning or tipping at the top of the wall. If you experiencing any of these problems, it’s important that you reinforce your wall right away. It only takes one bad rain storm to push a wall beyond repair.

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There are several methods for reinforcing a wall, but nothing compares to a Composite Reinforced Foundation utilizing the Fortress InvisiBeam® System. The Fortress InvisiBeam® system features the latest in composite technologies and outperforms alternative options such as steel I-Beams, Wall Anchors, or Carbon Fiber Fabric Systems.

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(YOUR COMPANY NAME) is part of a select group of contractors who have been recognized with Platinum Certifcation from Fortress. This means we receive factory direct training and our installations are backed by a manufacture’s Lifetime Warranty.

Highlight of a Fortress Platinum InvisiBeam® Installation:

• Manufactures COMPLETE INSTALLATION Lifetime warranty! If an Invisibeam Platinum System were to ever fail, Fortress would pay for a complete repair, not just replacement material. • Complete Structural Anchoring. Unlike other Carbon Fiber systems, the InvisiBeam Platinum system is structurally anchored at the top and bottom utilizing Fortress’ patent anchoring technology. This ensures that all types of lateral movement are being stopped. • Fortress was the frst ever company to receive ICC certifcation for a wall reinforcement system. This means it meets building codes everywhere. • The InvisiBeam system greatly reduces the margin for error during installation. Installation errors are VERY common with Carbon Fiber fabrics, leading to failures and repeat installations at the cost of the home owner. • InvisiBeam installs quickly and without a mess, unlike many other alternative wall reinforcement options. • The entire InvisiBeam® system is a TRUE COMPOSITE manufactured in the USA by Fortress in their Michigan plant. Other carbon fber systems are sourced from third party carbon weavers

It’s called “InvisiBeam®” For a Reason! InvisiBeam® Truly Redefnes the “ I ” in “ I -Beam” First, it can be used in any situation where a traditional steel I-Beam could be used to stop lateral wall movement; Second, it can become “invisible” by painting over it or hiding it behind a constructed wall. Since it requires no maintenance and is guaranteed to never fail, you have no worries about fnishing over it.

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The components of the InvisiBeam® Platinum System:

The Carbon Fiber / Kevlar® Strap features an open grid design, which allows the anchoring epoxy to form a chemical bond to the wall and a mechanical bond from the top to the bottom of the strap through a process called Adhesive Riveting Technology. Just like a traditional rivet, this technology forms a bond far superior to that of the “watery” saturant epoxy used with carbon fber fabrics. The InvisiBeam® strap actually makes the wall strong than when it was originally built.

A close up of Adhesive Riveting Technology shows how the structural epoxy working with the openings of the Carbon Fiber / Kevlar® grid.

The Top Anchor attaches to the rim joint of your home’s fooring system (additional options are available when the rim joist is not accessible.) This provides a secure anchoring point to a structural component of your home ensuring the wall cannot continue to tip once the strap is installed and that the strap cannot debone form the surface. The patented top anchor is post-tensioned, which allows the Carbon Fiber to immediately take on the load being place against your wall from the exterior soil pressure.

The Bottom Anchor provides over 4,500lbs of lateral strength, preventing the possibility of bottom wall shear. The patented anchor is made of solid carbon — in fact the bottom anchor alone contains over twice the carbon of any competitors entire system!

NEVER WORRY ABOUT YOUR WALLS AGAIN!

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CORE VALUES

UNDERSTANDING

It is important to us that our customers fully understand the issues they are having with their home and why the problems have occurred. We will create a customized plan that will fully address the issues and ensure that our customers completely understand what we will be doing and how it will be done.

TRUST

We want to earn the trust of our customers in three ways: Communication - From the first phone call to the last, we will keep our customers informed of their project status and changes as we work together. Execution - From the project design to the completion of the work, we will do exactly what we have contracted together to accomplish. Workmanship - Every project is custom-designed to correct the issue, and we will stand behind it with a warranty that is stated in the contract. We will also send out certified warranties that are transferable with the property.

RESPECT

We consider our customers to be friends and family and we treat them that way. We will respect their time by confirming all appointments and arriving on time. We will treat their home like our own while performing all work and we will dress and speak professionally at all times. We ensure that all work-related debris is removed when the job is complete.

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