Foundation Repair in Bexar County, TX

Foundation repair in Bexar County is almost all San Antonio. San Antonio is home base for 41 of the 47 businesses based in the county. Converse has 5, and Universal City has 1. Together they carry 8448 Google reviews, with an average rating of 4.7. San Antonio is the place named most often as a work area, with Austin second and Converse third. Corpus Christi, San Marcos and New Braunfels also come up, so a number of these businesses travel along the I-35 corridor and beyond.

Clay shows up often in the soil readings. In USDA soil maps for Bexar County, 49 spots were read across about 21 miles around the county's middle. Of those, 35 sat on clay rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 18 of them were very high. Houston Black was the commonest soil at 15 spots, then Lewisville at 12 and Eckrant at 4. Clay in this range swells after rain and shrinks as it dries out, which lifts and drops slabs and piers. The sample covers the area around the centre of the county. It does not describe any one town or street.

FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer puts 6 of the 49 spots inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. That is a sample of the area, not any one address, and a homeowner can check their own zone on FEMA's flood map. Water pooling beside a slab or pier keeps the clay under it damp. Several businesses pair foundation work with drainage. Royal Foundation builds French drains and regrades with sod and swales. Risen Foundation Solutions and Church Foundation Repair both test for plumbing leaks.

The median home in Bexar County was built in 1989. Of all homes, 16.1% were built before 1960 and 48.0% in 1990 or later. In general, older Texas houses are more often pier and beam and newer houses more often slab. Foundation type is not something the census records. The San Antonio trade handles both, and the name house leveling turns up often. Aztec House Leveling levels pier and beam and slab foundations with hydraulic jacks and steel shims. Martin Foundation Stabilizing repairs slab and pier and beam homes and also does excavation work.