Our Foundation Services

Your foundation may sit out of sight, but it shouldn’t remain out of mind. When a foundation settles, foundation repair is required in order to stabilize your investment.

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What We Do

Pier & Beam Foundation Repair

These piers provide stability from the ground, while the beams distribute the weight of the house across the piers evenly.

Foundation Repair

Breaks and cracks in your foundation may lead to leveling issues or damage to your house.

Tunnel and excavation

French drain and surface drainage system

Factors That Affect Your Foundation

There are many factors that play a role in the integrity and longevity of your foundation. Understanding the risks your foundation faces can help you take steps to minimize or reduce threats and recognize when you need foundation repair to correct an ongoing problem.

Drainage plays an important role in foundation health. When the drainage on your property is poor or inadequate, water can pool around your foundation, causing it to heave and shift over time.

Soils The soils on which your property rests is also an important factor affecting the integrity of your foundation. Soils often undergoes changes due to droughts and rainfall, any shifts will take your foundation along for the ride, causing settling, shifting, and other damage.

Tree roots can burrow through the concrete of your foundation in their search for water. Over time, these roots weaken the foundation and make it more susceptible to water, which causes further damage.

Weather can also play a part in negatively effecting your foundation. Hot and cold weather forces the soil under and around foundations to expand and contract, creating permanent separation over time.

Plumbing When plumbing leaks occur under your foundation, this can cause heaving of the soils creating permanent shifts and settling of the foundation.

Pier and Beam Foundation

About Pier & Beam Foundations

Pier and beam foundations, also called post and beam foundations, are elevated substructures made from piers and beams. The piers provide stability from the ground, while the beams distribute the weight of the house across the piers evenly.

Because of their structure, pier and beam foundations provide:

Extra Stability

The clay soil of north Texas has an advantage when coupled with pier and beam foundations. The fine grains that make up clay are pliable when moist and brittle when dry. Piers can move together with moist clay and won’t break dry clay because of their even weight distribution.

Crawl Space

Since the joists that support your house are lifted about 18 inches from the ground, there is room for you or a repairman to move underneath the foundation. Having a crawl space is handy when problems arise with your foundation or plumbing and you need a quick fix>

Simple Repairs

Most repairs for a pier and beam foundation can be done through the crawlspace below your home. This cuts down on excavation and invasive procedures when it comes time to repair or upgrade an ailing pier or beams that have begun to rot and weaken.

Slab Foundation Repair

How we can help

Breaks and cracks in your foundation may lead to leveling issues or damage to your house. A compromised slab foundation means that the base of your house’s support system is failing, and the rest of your supports are likely to fail if you don’t repair them quickly.

How do I know if I need to repair my slab foundation?

Sloping

If you notice that your floors or counters have begun to slope in a certain direction or bow in the middle, your foundation may have serious cracks that are in need of immediate repair

Sticking Doors and Windows

When it becomes difficult to open and shut your windows and doors, your house has probably shifted due to foundation issues. Items that hang or that are on hinges will stay more level than items that rest on your foundation

Cracks in Walls

When your walls have to deal with extra pressure from an uneven weight distribution, they tend to crack. Look for cracks originating at the seams and trim on your walls. They are accurate indicators of weakened foundation.

How does Power Lift Foundation
Repair fix concrete slabs?

Our approach to repairing a concrete slab is unique to each job. The technique that we use depends on how the slab has weakened. We can fix:

Small cracks in exposed slabs
Large cracks in exposed slabs
Damage in substructural slab foundation

Exposed Slabs

Our foundation repair specialists can fill moderate to severe cracking and seal the open area with a surface patch specially designed to help the repaired slab contend with the settling of the house.

Substructural Slabs

Slabs used as foundation for homes require excavation to fix. To minimize the invasiveness of repairs, our foundation experts will use specialized techniques above ground to determine where the damage begins. We will then excavate where necessary and fill and seal cracks that are causing your foundation to fail.