Foundation Repair in Wichita Falls, TX

Half of the sample around Wichita Falls had no soil reading at all. Of 25 points around the centre of Wichita Falls, 13 fell on urban land. Of the other 12, 8 sat on soil rated high or very high for shrink-swell. The commonest soil series were Kamay at 5 points, Mangum at 3 and Vernon at 1. This page covers foundation repair in Wichita Falls, and where the ground could be read, most of it was the kind that moves. In these classes the clay swells after rain and shrinks in a dry spell, so the slab or pier on top of it can lift and drop.

A sample of the area around the centre cannot describe one street or one lot, and paved ground tells you nothing about the soil beneath it. The same sample found 4 of 25 land points inside the mapped floodplain. Whether your own house is in a flood zone is a question for FEMA's flood map. Standing water near a foundation keeps the clay under it wet, so drainage matters here as well as piers.

The homes here lean old. The median home in Wichita Falls was built in 1971. About 32.5% of homes went up before 1960, and 20.5% in 1990 or later. As a general pattern, older Texas homes are more often pier and beam and newer ones slab. The census does not record foundation type. Pier and beam work shows up among the companies on this page more than slab work does.