Foundation Repair
Foundation problems rarely announce themselves. They show up as doors that stick, cracks above the windows, floors that slope toward one corner, and gaps where the trim used to sit flush. We crawl under the house and figure out what's actually moving, whether it's settlement, moisture undermining the footings, or support framing that's given out, and we fix the cause so it holds. We're not interested in jacking up a floor today just to watch it drop again next spring.
Foundations, the straight version
You usually feel it before you see it. Doors and windows that stick or won't latch, diagonal cracks running up from the corners of door and window frames, floors that slope or bounce, gaps opening between the trim and the wall, stair-step cracks in brick or block. Those are the tells. Any one of them can have a harmless explanation. Several together, especially if they're getting worse, usually mean something's moving underneath and it's worth a look.
We go under the house, take measurements and photos, and show you what's happening. We don't diagnose a foundation from the curb.
It comes down to our soil. Atlanta sits on red clay, and red clay is expansive. It swells when it's wet and shrinks when it dries out. Through our long humid stretch from May through September it stays saturated and pushes on your footings; in a dry spell it pulls back and leaves them with less to bear on. That seasonal swing, year after year, is what works a foundation loose.
Then there's the housing stock. A lot of homes in places like Grant Park, Kirkwood, Decatur, and older parts of Marietta went up decades ago, before modern footing and drainage standards. They were never built for what our clay does over fifty years. We've spent enough time under Atlanta-area homes to know what your soil and your home's era tend to throw at us.
They overlap, and honestly a lot of foundation problems start as moisture problems. If your footings are settling because water is undermining the soil under them, the real fix is two parts: stabilize the structure and stop the water. If your floors sag because joists rotted in a damp crawl space, that's where our crawl space encapsulation work meets our foundation work. We repair the framing and dry the space out so it doesn't happen again.
And if the water has made it into a basement and the walls are cracking or bowing under the pressure, that crosses into basement waterproofing territory. The point is we look at the whole picture under your house, not just the one symptom you called about.
Depends on what we find. When a foundation has settled because the soil can no longer carry the load, we install piers down to stable, load-bearing strata and lift the structure back toward level, to the maximum practical recovery point. That's an honest way of saying we get it as close as the structure safely allows, not always all the way. Pushing too far on an old foundation can crack things that were fine.
In other cases the right move is to stabilize where it is and stop the movement, using bracing, support jacks, and drainage corrections, rather than chase a perfectly level floor at the risk of new damage. We'll tell you straight which one your house calls for.
It depends entirely on what's moving and why. Reinforcing a couple of failing support posts in a crawl space is a different job from installing a row of piers under a settling footing, and we won't pretend otherwise with a one-size number. The free inspection is where you get a real figure. We go under, find the cause, and put the scope and the price in writing before you commit to anything. And if it's a bigger project, we offer interest-free financing so you can spread it out.
How It Works
We keep the process simple and transparent so you know exactly what to expect before anyone starts work.
We evaluate the crawlspace or basement and document what we find with photos and moisture readings.
We review moisture levels, drainage, and structural integrity to understand the full picture.
You receive a practical proposal tailored to your property. No jargon, no pressure, no surprises.
Our team performs the work and walks you through the result so you see exactly what was done and why.
What We Do
Here's how we assess foundation issues and bring stability back to your home.
Before we touch anything, we walk the property to find what's moving and why. That means measuring floor slope, checking for stair-step cracks in brick or block, getting under the house to look for moisture undermining the footings, and reading the drainage around the home. You get a plain-language rundown of what we found and which repairs actually address the cause, not just the cracks you can see.
When a foundation has settled because the soil beneath it can't carry the load anymore, piers transfer that weight down to stable, load-bearing strata. We install helical and push piers along the affected sections of footing, then lift or stabilize the structure to the maximum practical recovery point. Engineered, permanent, and built to hold.
The beams and posts under your crawl space carry the load of your floors. When moisture, termite damage, or undersized framing wears them down, floors start to sag and bounce. We reinforce or replace the failing beams, add properly sized steel or engineered support, and tie the new framing into solid bearing points so the load actually goes somewhere.
Sagging floors almost always trace back to something underneath: rotted joists, failed shimming, undersized beams, or a settling pier. We find the source from the crawl space up, repair or sister the damaged framing, and add adjustable supports where needed to bring the floor system back as close to level as the structure allows.
When a foundation is actively moving, whether from soil swelling and shrinking, poor drainage, or water pressure pushing on it, stabilizing it means dealing with both the structural symptom and what's driving it. We combine piering, wall bracing, and drainage corrections so the foundation holds its position and the conditions causing the movement get fixed too.
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