Foundation Repair in Hondo, TX

Most of the sampled ground around Hondo is clay that moves. Of 25 points around the centre of town, 17 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 2 of them were very high. Knippa was the commonest soil series at 12 points, then Castroville at 5 and Divot at 3. For foundation repair in Texas, that is the soil that swells when wet and shrinks when dry, lifting and dropping slabs and piers. The sample describes the area around the centre, not one street or lot.

In the same sample, 3 of 25 land points sit inside the floodplain FEMA maps. A homeowner checks their own zone on FEMA's flood map, since standing water near a foundation keeps the clay under it wet. The median home in Hondo was built in 1973. About as many homes there date from before 1960 as from 1990 or later. Newer Texas houses are more often slabs and older ones pier and beam, a broad habit the census does not track.