Foundation Repair in Hardin County, TX

Hardin County, Texas, has foundation repair on this page from one Southeast Texas business, and the clay that matters most here is the very high kind. In a sample of 49 places around the centre of the county, 11 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 9 of those 11 were very high. The commonest soils were Sorter with 11 places, Kirbyville with 8 and Waller with 4. Very high clay swells strongly when wet and shrinks when dry, which lifts and drops slabs and piers. These counts describe the area around the county's centre and nothing wider.

Water adds to the picture. In the same sample, 3 of 49 places sat inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. FEMA's flood map shows the zone for your own address, which a sample cannot. Ponding beside a foundation holds moisture in the clay below. Census estimates put the median home at 1992, with 11.2% built before 1960 and 52.2% in 1990 or later. Newer Texas homes are more often slab and older ones pier and beam, as a general pattern, though the census does not record foundation type.