Foundation Repair in Arlington, TX

Foundation repair in Arlington is a Tarrant County trade: all 7 businesses on this page are there. Most of what they describe is slab and pier and beam repair done with pressed concrete piers, steel piers or helical piers. Arlington sits in the middle of the Dallas Fort Worth area, so many of the crews here also work in Fort Worth, Dallas, Irving and Plano.

The ground explains the demand. In a sample of 25 points around the centre of Arlington, 3 fell on urban land with no soil reading. Of the other 22, 14 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 9 of those were very high. The commonest soil series were Heiden at 6 points, Gasil at 6 and Navo at 2. Soil with that rating moves with moisture. A slab or pier on it can rise in a wet year and settle in a dry one. The sample describes the area around the centre, not any one street.

Flooding is a smaller part of the story. 1 of 25 land points in the same sample sits inside the FEMA floodplain. Check your own address on FEMA's flood map, because the sample is not about your house. Clay beside a foundation stays wet when water is left standing there.

The median home in Arlington was built in 1985. Only a small share were built before 1960, and a larger share were built in 1990 or later. As a general pattern, older Texas homes are more often pier and beam and newer ones are slab. The census does not record foundation type. With few homes from before 1960, slab work is what you would expect to see most often.