Foundation Repair in Lamar County, TX

Paris is the base for foundation repair in Lamar County, Texas, and the clay under the area around the county's centre is mostly the high-rated kind. In a sample of 49 places there, 43 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 12 of those were very high. The commonest soils were Annona with 7 places, then Normangee and Freestone with 5 each. Clay at those ratings swells when wet and shrinks when dry, which lifts and drops slabs and piers. The counts belong to the area around the county's centre, not to every street.

In the same sample, 4 of 49 places sat inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. FEMA's flood map shows the zone for your own address. Wet ground that does not drain keeps the clay under a foundation swollen. Census estimates put the median home at 1985, with 14.4% built before 1960 and 41.8% in 1990 or later. Older homes tend toward pier and beam and newer homes toward slab across Texas, but foundation type is not something the census counts.