Leveling, shimming and joist repair for the older pier-and-beam homes common near the Heights.
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Older Houston homes, especially the bungalows around the Heights and other early neighborhoods, sit on pier-and-beam foundations with a shallow crawl space instead of a slab. Over decades the piers settle unevenly into the clay, wood beams and joists sag, and the floors above start to bounce, dip or slope.
Local pros in our network re-level pier-and-beam homes by adjusting or adding support piers and shimming the beams back to a consistent height. Where humidity and moisture in the crawl space have rotted a beam or joist, they repair or replace the damaged framing so the floor system is sound before it is leveled.
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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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