Foundation Repair in Cleveland, TX

Foundation repair in Cleveland comes with a ground story that leans toward water more than clay. In a sample of 25 points around the centre of Cleveland, 3 fell on urban land with no soil reading, and of the other 22 only 3 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell. All 3 were very high. The commonest soil series were Waller and Westcott at 5 points each, then Spurger at 3. So swelling clay is a smaller part of the picture here, and water is a bigger one.

That is because 10 of 25 land points in the same sample sat inside FEMA's mapped floodplain. The sample describes the area, not any one address, so check your own lot on FEMA's flood map. Water that sits beside a house keeps the soil under it wet, whatever kind of soil it is. A Cleveland homeowner with a floor problem should ask about drainage as well as piers.

The median Cleveland home was built in 1983. A share of the homes date from before 1960, and about a third were built in 1990 or later. Pier and beam tends to go with the older houses and slabs with the newer ones, but the census does not record foundation type, so treat that as a rule of thumb.

Rite-Way Foundation, in Liberty County, serves homeowners and business owners in Cleveland and across East Texas, with offices in Carthage, Conroe, Gladewater, Huntsville, Jasper, Livingston and Longview. It repairs pier and beam and slab foundations, does under slab tunneling and house leveling, and uses helical piers. It also does drainage work and foam injection. It has 5.0 from 2 reviews.