Services
Foundation Repair Services in McKinney, TX
Six things we do, and one of them is telling you that you don’t need the other five. Every job starts with an elevation survey, because guessing at a foundation is how people buy piers they didn’t need.
Start with the survey
Whatever you think is wrong, the first step is the same: a digital elevation survey that maps the floor and shows exactly where the structure has moved and by how much. It takes about an hour, it’s free, and you keep the report.
That survey determines everything downstream. Sometimes it points to piers. Fairly often it points to a downspout and a watering schedule. You can’t know which until someone measures.
What we do
Slab foundation repair
Pressed concrete pilings or steel piers driven to load-bearing strata, then a measured lift with elevations documented before and after. The standard fix for a settled slab in North Texas.
Pier & beam leveling
Rotted posts, sagging beams, notched joists, and four-inch shim stacks somebody built up over thirty years. Common in the Historic District and anything built before the mid-1950s.
Foundation inspection
Free elevation survey, photos, and a written report you can hand to a buyer, a lender, or a second contractor. Plenty of these end with us saying you don’t need repair.
Drainage & grading
French drains, surface drains, buried downspout extensions, and regrading. Piers stop a section from dropping; drainage stops the reason it dropped.
Root barriers
A mature live oak can pull hundreds of gallons a day out of the clay under your slab. A deep HDPE barrier keeps the tree and protects the foundation.
Concrete leveling
Polyurethane foam lifting for sunken driveways, patios, walkways, and pool decks. Half a day, and roughly a third of what replacement costs.
Most jobs are two of these, not one
Foundation work gets sold as a single product — piers — and that’s not usually how the problem actually works. Soil moves because of water, either too much of it in one place or not enough. Piering addresses what already happened. Drainage and root barriers address what’s still happening.
Doing only the first is how people end up calling for a second round of piers four years later. Doing only the second doesn’t lift a corner that has already dropped. Which is why the survey comes first and the recommendation comes second.
If you’re trying to work out what you’re dealing with, the cost guide and the hydrostatic testing article are the two most useful things to read first.
Find out which one you need
Free elevation survey across McKinney, usually same week. An hour on site and you’ll know what you’re dealing with.