top of page
Search
What is Hydrostatic Pressure?The Dangers It Represents
Hydrostatic pressure is something homeowners should be aware of. Left unchecked, it can cause serious damage to your home’s foundation....
Aug 143 min read
Â
Â
Â
Understanding Expansive Clay Soil: A Guide for Homeowners in DFW
The Importance of Soil in Foundation Design For as much as I love living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, there is one serious drawback we...
Jul 174 min read
Â
Â
Â
Understanding Foundation Issues in DFW: A Homeowner's Guide
The foundation is one of the most critical components of any home, especially in a region like DFW. The area's expansive clay soils and...
Jun 263 min read
Â
Â
Â


Types of Soil in Texas
While talking about foundation damage/repair, we always talk about high plasticity clay when referring to our soil in Texas. This is...
May 9, 20243 min read
Â
Â
Â


A MATTER OF LANDSCAPING
Landscape is the process, which can sometimes reach the level of art, of making a yard or piece of land more attractive by altering the...
Feb 16, 20246 min read
Â
Â
Â


STEP BY STEP: SLAB ON GRADE FOUNDATION REPAIR
We have talked about foundation repair. A lot. Quite a lot. It is what this blog is about, after all. We’ve talked about the different...
Jan 25, 20245 min read
Â
Â
Â


FOUNDATION: REPAIRED How to achieve long lasting results?
Your foundation has been repaired. The ordeal is over. Your house is safe. Time to rest on your laurels. Or is it? For long we’ve talked...
Jan 2, 20244 min read
Â
Â
Â


PREVENTING WINTER DAMAGE TO THE FOUNDATION
If there is one constant for homeowners in our beloved state is that foundations just can’t quite catch a break; if it’s not the dry...
Aug 17, 20236 min read
Â
Â
Â


DRY SEASON: Taking Care of your Foundation
We can’t stop the rain season from coming, any more than we can stop the dry season either. But the one thing we can do is prepare for...
Jul 20, 20233 min read
Â
Â
Â


RAIN SEASON: Taking Care of your Foundation
Time and again we’ve spoken about seasonal weather changes; soil being too dry, soil being too moist, but the fact of the matter is most...
Jul 13, 20233 min read
Â
Â
Â


PIER AND BEAM ANATOMY
Previously we have touched upon the subject of the different, or to be more precise, the most common types of foundations. Back then, we...
May 11, 20237 min read
Â
Â
Â


House Settling
Previously, we’ve talked about foundation leveling and foundation repair and in doing so we mentioned the term House Settling once or...
May 3, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â


Foundation Leveling VS Foundation Repair
By now it is more than likely that you are well familiarized with what a ‘Foundation Problem’ is. We have talked about it in the past and...
Apr 6, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


‘Foundation Maintenance’
Last time we talked about exercises in prevention and today we will build upon that. While it is pretty much impossible to do something...
Feb 3, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â


‘DIY: Checking Your Soil Moisture Levels’
In the very first post on this blog we talked about soil behavior, which, long story short, is responsible for foundation damage to our...
Jan 19, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page
