Grading, French drains and root barriers to steady the moisture in the clay around your slab.
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In Houston the foundation problem is really a moisture problem. Expansive Beaumont clay swells when it is soaked by our heavy rains and shrinks when it dries out in a Texas drought, and that constant shrink-swell is what cracks slabs and moves piers. The fix that lasts is keeping the moisture around the foundation as steady as possible.
The pros we connect you with correct grading so water drains away from the slab instead of pooling against it, install French drains and downspout extensions to carry roof water off, and set root barriers where large trees are pulling moisture out of the soil on one side of the house and drying it out unevenly.
Free inspection, written quote, no obligation, and they will show you where the moisture is actually swinging around your foundation.
Houston sits on highly expansive Gulf Coast clay, often called gumbo or Beaumont clay. It swells when wet and shrinks when dry, and our drought-then-flood weather drives that shrink-swell to extremes. That constant movement is what stresses slab and pier-and-beam foundations here.
Almost none do. The high water table and expansive clay make basements impractical on the Gulf Coast, so nearly all Houston homes are slab-on-grade, with older homes near the Heights built on pier-and-beam. Foundation work here is about the slab and the soil beneath it, not basement walls.
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