Foundation Repair in Hays County, TX

Hays County has a small foundation repair trade, and most of its sample sits off soil rated high for shrink-swell. In a sample of 49 spots, in an area about 21 miles across centred on the middle of the county, 1 spot fell on water. Of the other 48, 8 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, 4 of them very high. The commonest soil series were Brackett at 18 spots, Comfort at 8 and Rumple at 5. Where the rating applies, the clay swells when it gets wet and shrinks when it dries, which can lift and drop slabs and piers. The sample describes the area around the county's centre, not every town or street.

Flood risk in the same sample was light: 3 of 48 land spots sat inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. That is no statement about one address, so homeowners should look up their own zone on FEMA's flood map. Water standing against a foundation keeps the clay under it wet, and a house outside the floodplain can still have drainage trouble of its own.

The homes are mostly new. The median home in Hays County was built in 2005, with 76.0% built in 1990 or later and 4.4% before 1960. As a general pattern, newer Texas homes are slab and older ones more often pier and beam, though the census does not record foundation type. The businesses on this page cover both: Dripping Springs Foundation Repair Company repairs slab and pier and beam foundations with steel and concrete pier systems, and Kyle Foundation Repair Group Inc. works on pier and beam repair, pressed concrete piering and helical piers.