Need rec for excellent foundation repair or engineering firms

In bad need of foundation guy that will fix my house and stand by the work. Or an engineering firm that will tell me exactly what it needs. Or both. 1940s home. Moving a lot.
Thank you

Also if $5k in work was done two months ago and It didn’t help at all, and there’s supposed to be a warranty, but I can’t even get a hold of the guy, is that something you’d pursue civilly?

Perma Pier. I dont know if they will work out in weatherford, but they are beyond awesome. I also hired a Structural engineer first to get that report and to insure the work was done to match. I did this after two previous jackleg cheapo companies made my house worse. After perma pier, the cracks closed up. Doors work fine etc. The crew from perma pier were really courteous and professional. Well worth the money in my opinion. The jack leg cheapos were terrible. Get it done right. I can get you names and numbers if you like.

1940's home, so I'm guessing pier and beam?? That should make things easier, and yet the foundation may not be the only problem. .

I would love names and numbers sir.

https://www.permapier.com/

First I called Crosstown Engineering - Adam Green (469) 751-7694
Then, after his assessment,

Hired Perma Pier to do the work. They are one of a few that were recommended.

Perma Pier (214) 637-1444 - specifically Pedro Gonzalez (806) 239-0242

Prior to this, prior to 2017, I paid a jerkwad company twice $3k each time who unknowingly made matters worse.

Perma Pier and Crosstown are professionals.

Gl Hunt is one of ftw top rated repair specialist. They have come to my house and have referred to friends and all had nothing but positive experience and repair work when needed. They spent about hour checking my home and luckily I didn’t need repairs. If you don’t need they are honest and don’t force unnecessary repairs

If it is foundation problems (Shifting) Ram Jack is a great company. They have a good warranty and they always answer their phone! They do excellent work and they stand by their work.

About 10 years ago we had All Pro fix our foundation. We sold this house a little over a year ago. Since it had foundation repair the buyers had a independent company come in and check the foundation. This company said it was fine. Is has a life time transferable warranty which I know the new buyers had transferred to them.

Crosstown is a good place to start. I work for Structured Foundation Repairs and we've had a major influx of pier & beam homes needing work in the past few months. PM me if you have any questions.

You can call the office for a free inspection (972) 484-1200.

I’d go with Nolan Ryan and Olshan.

most expensive scam out there. perma pier is good.

What about the guy that lives by the Aggie Code?

wh. Glad you have received good info.

hire the engineer first, then get the fix done to his specs.

Excellence is not something people come to OT for.

Crosstown here now. Praying we can get this fixed.

Following....our house is due also.

Anybody have experience with perm-pier vs structured foundation repair?

GL Hunt also

Yes, both of them. PM me if you have any questions.

Either one have been around a long time, and both are reputable.

GL Hunt is who I used over 15 years ago and things are still good. Great company to work with.

Permapier started today to the tune of $12k.
Quick question. I understand cracks will happen during the lift whichIs cosmetic and fixable but if doors opening and closing actually gets worse, can that be fixed?

Lifting the foundation can fix doors or make them worse. Sometimes what fixes the foundation can make doors worse due to the wood frames warping over time. If doors are sticking/not closing after the lift is completed, you may need to have the doors (strike plate, frames, etc) adjusted.

Regardless of who installed piers to lift and level the house ,if you do not correct the problem that caused it to settle to began with you will have problems in the future.

Installing piers around the exterior will only stabilize the perimeter beam, if lack of moisture caused it to settle to began with the interior portion of the house will settle or dish if the cause is not corrected.

Its not always the foundation repair companies fault if settlement continues over time. You really need to understand the source of the problem, the bandaid(piers) does not solve the problem permanentley.

did you have a static test on the plumbing done before the lift or just waiting till it is done?

According to my quote a pre plumbing test was to be done but I didn’t see anyone do it. Will ask today.

We have had great results from G.L. Hunt . We have a older home that is pier and beam as well as clay soil that expands up to 5 inches according to the engineering results . Every few years G.L. Hunts has to come back out and make some adjustments when a door gets tough to open .

They busted a pipe today and we now have no water to the house. Plumber on the way.

did you get your pre lift test results?

Yes a pre and post work hydrostatic leak test. I paid a plumber. It was $500 for that test. Perma Pier said they would do one, but I thought 3rd party would be a good check and balance.

wh2004, sorry

My quote shows pre test but salesman told me today they only do post. So I’ll be asking for that money back.

I would be there for the post test and watch the plumber carefully. the test is simple, a kid can do it. ive seen plumbers in person(not naming names on this site) crack pvc clean outs with a pry bar on purpose to make them fail to get some high dollar work out of a simple static test that should have passed. some people are disgusting, still works in dfw and north of here.

Man I’ll lose it if that happens. I’m in the poor house already.
Thank you for the tips

pm me if I can help you in any way. I spent 7 yrs in this line of work and have seen many homeowners in tears.

Pm inbound

When we had ours done last year, the piers come with valves that they can hook up to in the future and adjust if needed. They also did an injection of a substance under the slab portion to raise and level it. We had one corner of the house settling/breaking off. When they put the piers in they were surprised that they had to go down 20 feet to hit solid resistance. Living in a friggin houseboat.

Man....this is AWESOME info in here. Thanks guys for posting all this up. Is there an update on things and how it turned out?

Thought I would update.

I have nothing but issues and have thought multiple times about walking out on this house. No one should spend money like we have and be stuck with foundation issues.

I can’t remember how much back ground Info I put in this thread but real quick.
House was built in the 40s but an add-on was improperly built on in the 80s. Didn’t know that until this process started. It was not tied in to the original house correctly so it was basically just it’s own structure moving independently from the rest of the house. Which is where all my problems are.

I ended up getting the $700 engineer report and spending $12000ish (a loan) to PermaPier. During the work is when I learned there was not too much they could do as far as lifting because of the way the add-on was. They ran some beams and did a bunch of work but could only lift so much without really destroying the walls (all completely remodeled by flipper). Also the more they lifted the outside the more the inside where it was never tied in to the originally house wanted to pull away if that makes sense. So they did the best they could and “stabilized” It where it was at.
Then the plumber came out and the included pressure test thing failed, which I witnessed. Turns out there was an old iron pipe just completely trashed under the house. That cost me $1000 to fix plus $300 to have the test redone.

Also I had gutters installed around the entire house for $800.

Fast forward to September, like 6 months since the work was done. Everything went to [censored] again in the same area. New cracks, doors sticking, etc.
Called PermaPier and they sent someone out for a warranty inspection. This person tells me that they will re-lift no problem, but we should have used steel piers not concrete and we have drainage issues. This is first I’ve heard of this. No mention before.

I asked him for a quote to do a drainage system. I have a sidewalk on one side of the house that needs to come out then the drainage thing put it out to the road. Then he recommended knocking a few more crawl spaces in my concrete exterior thing for ventilation under the house. Quote: $7000!!!!!!
No way.

So today they finally come out to do the warranty work and although the guy was able to get the two back doors to work properly, there’s new interior door that won’t close right and some folding laundry doors that look lopsided. He said he can’t fix those. So I don’t really know what to do with those now.

So, I’m $14800 in ($12000 or so of which is a loan), still need drainage work that I’ve been quoted $7000 for, a $269000 mortgage, and STILL have foundation problems.

So thank you for listening to my bitch session. Moral of story. Don’t ever buy a house that you may even think there’s a possibility of having foundation issues.

What are the odd that the house might get hit by lightning and burn to the ground??

What are the odds that when “that” happened all my stuff coincidentally was in storage? Lol

they need to give you back some $
for the job they admitted couldn't
be done correctly

Thank you for the update. Good luck with the rest of the fixing. You might be able to do the drainage yourself or much cheaper. I would get more opinions and do some research on that part. You will get through it somehow

sorry to hear you are still dealing with this.

From experience, NO!

Olshan$$$$$$

Where's redranger? Hmm.....

$175/pier