Struc­tur­al Foun­da­tion Repair: Impor­tance of Pier Spacing

Dec 22, 2013 • By Matthew Stock.

When a home suf­fers seri­ous struc­tur­al dam­age to its foun­da­tion it can require a major repair job and, to be frank, a major price tag.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, some foun­da­tion repair con­trac­tors that may either lack the required engi­neer­ing knowl­edge to design a prop­er repair or who may be more inter­est­ed in mak­ing a sale than doing the repair prop­er­ly will often ​“low-ball” the cost of under­pin­ning a foun­da­tion that has dropped, set­tled or sunk.

Because the cost of such a repair is deter­mined main­ly by the num­ber of piers that are required to under­pin the house, these con­trac­tors may rec­om­mend few­er piers than the sit­u­a­tion requires and offer a war­ran­ty that may cov­er only part of the job.

To learn how ​“under-repair­ing” a dropped foun­da­tion can be cost­ly and dan­ger­ous in the long run, please watch the fol­low­ing brief video which explains the dif­fer­ence between a prop­er­ly under­pinned foun­da­tion and one that was done at a ​“bar­gain” price.

The foun­da­tion repair team at U.S. Water­proof­ing uses engi­neer­ing data to spec­i­fy and rec­om­mend the right scale of repair for a sunken foun­da­tion and our war­ran­ty cov­ers not only our work but the over­all result as well. Please ask us for a free con­sul­ta­tion if you have foun­da­tion problems.

Tags: structural foundation repair, foundation repair cost, cost foundation repair

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