Foundation Repair in McLennan County, TX

Foundation repair in McLennan County works around a lot of shrink-swell clay. This page covers 8 businesses: 7 in Waco and 1 in Hewitt. A sample of 49 spots in an area about 21 miles across, centred on the middle of McLennan County, put 3 spots on water. Of the other 46, 31 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell, with 16 of them very high. Houston Black and Aledo were the commonest soil series at 4 spots each, followed by Tinn at 3. Clay with that rating swells when wet and shrinks when dry, which lifts and drops a slab or a pier. The sample covers the area around the county's centre and is not a reading of every town or street.

Flooding is part of the same story. In that area, 14 of the 46 land spots sit inside the 1% annual chance floodplain, according to FEMA's maps. A sample cannot speak for one address, so homeowners should check their own zone on FEMA's flood map. Water that pools beside a house keeps the clay beneath it wet, and wet clay is the clay that moves.

The housing stock has real age to it. The median home in McLennan County was built in 1982, 21.3% were built before 1960 and 37.8% in 1990 or later. As a general pattern, older Texas homes are more often pier and beam and newer ones slab, though the census does not record it. G.L. Hunt Foundation Repair, Advanced House Leveling, Waco Foundation Repair and Innovative Foundation Repair all work on both slab and pier and beam foundations.

Piers feature heavily in the work, and the businesses offer a spread of them. G.L. Hunt Foundation Repair installs concrete piers, steel piers and steel hybrid piers. Waco Foundation Repair, based in Hewitt, uses steel piers, concrete piers and combination piers. Innovative Foundation Repair describes slab repair with concrete pressed pilings locked with steel. Advanced House Leveling uses concrete pilings and steel pilings. Groundworks Foundation Repair Waco uses pier systems and concrete leveling to lift sinking concrete.