Foundation Repair Services in Round Rock, TX

A slab is a concrete floor poured straight onto the ground, and many newer Texas slabs are post-tensioned. Where the clay runs deep, a dry spell shrinks the ground and one part of the slab can sink with it. Slab foundation repair drives piers past the soil that moves, lifts the sunken part close to level again and keeps it there. In Round Rock, the plan for that work needs an engineer's seal before the city issues a permit.

In a raised house, the floor stands on piers or blocks with a crawl space underneath. Many older Texas homes were built this way, and the oldest homes we serve are in Taylor and Elgin, where the median house dates from the late 1970s. Raised houses shift as well, and fixing them means other work: supports reset, crushed shims replaced, sagging framing made sound. The pier and beam repair page walks through that work and the clues you can spot from the crawl space.

When a slope runs through the whole house rather than one corner, house leveling is the answer. It opens with a survey of floor heights, then the low spots come up. Perfect level is not the target: the guidelines Texas engineers use call that unlikely after any adjustment. What you want is near level, and staying put.

Before any talk of repair, a foundation inspection puts numbers on the house. A careful one records floor heights room by room and checks the drainage and the soil. If those numbers say the house is stable, that's a good result, and you can stop there.

The guidelines Texas engineers use say most cracks don't compromise a foundation's strength. Foundation crack repair starts by sorting a cosmetic crack from a sign of movement, then fixes it the way that answer calls for.