Foundation Repair in Travis County, TX

Foundation repair in Travis County is an Austin trade with a few outposts. Austin is home base for 21 of the 28 businesses based in the county. Del Valle has 3, Pflugerville has 2, and Leander and Elgin have 1 each. Together they carry 3637 Google reviews, with an average rating of 4.5. Austin is named most often as a work area, then Pflugerville and Round Rock. Georgetown, Del Valle and San Antonio also come up.

The soil readings point to clay again. The USDA soil survey for Travis County gives readings at 49 spots, spread over about 21 miles around the middle of the county. Five of the spots were urban land with no soil reading. Of the other 44, 30 sat on clay rated high or very high for shrink-swell, and 18 of those were very high. Houston Black was the commonest soil at 9 spots, then Heiden at 4 and Burleson at 3. This kind of clay swells when it is wet and shrinks when it is dry, which lifts and drops slabs and piers. These readings belong to the middle of the county, not to any lot or street.

FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer puts 5 of the 49 spots inside the 1% annual chance floodplain. That is a sample of the area, not any one address, so owners should check their own zone on FEMA's flood map. Ponding next to a house keeps the clay below its foundation wet for longer. Barton Creek Foundation Repair offers moisture and drainage improvements for homeowners in Austin, including Oak Hill, Circle C Ranch, West Lake Hills and Rollingwood. Hydepark Foundation Repair designs and installs drainage systems.

The median home in Travis County was built in 1997. Of all homes, 7.1% were built before 1960 and 59.2% in 1990 or later. With most Travis County homes built since 1990, slabs are the likelier foundation in newer neighborhoods, while older houses lean toward pier and beam. That is a general Texas pattern, and the census does not record foundation type. Austin businesses describe both kinds. Hydepark Foundation Repair has spent 20 years on pier and beam bungalows in Hyde Park and slab homes in the suburbs. Hercules Foundation Repair & Remodeling says it sees pier and beam houses in South Austin that need leveling for settling.