Foundation Repair in Hidalgo County, TX

In Hidalgo County, very little of the ground for foundation repair in Texas carries the clay rating that moves houses. In a sample of 49 points spread across about 21 miles around the centre of the county, only 2 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell. The commonest soil series were Hidalgo at 19 points, Brennan at 8 and Delmita at 6. This page covers 6 foundation businesses working in Hidalgo County.

Clay rated high or very high swells when it gets wet and shrinks when it dries, and it lifts and drops the slabs and piers above it. A sample with just 2 such points suggests that, around the centre of the county, that clay is the exception. It still cannot speak for every town or street, and a house on one of those patches can move like any other, so a free inspection is the way to find out about a particular lot. Two of the businesses here offer one.

FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer puts 0 of the 49 land points in the same sample inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. Again, that describes the area around the centre, not an address, and a homeowner can look up their own zone on FEMA's flood map. Water that stands near a foundation can still keep the soil under it wet, whatever the zone.

The median home in Hidalgo County was built in 1999. 4.3% were built before 1960, and 66.4% were built in 1990 or later. Pier and beam usually belongs to older houses and slabs to newer ones, a general pattern that the census does not record. With housing this young, the work on this page runs toward slab repair and leveling. MTZ House Leveling and Action House Leveling both take on slab and pier and beam houses and offer slab lifting.