From the King William Historic District to older neighborhoods inside Loop 410, San Antonio has a rich stock of pier and beam homes.

The heavy rains often cause the "gumbo" soil to shift these blocks. We offer careful, precision leveling services that respect the age of your home, replacing rotted wood and stabilizing the perimeter beam to stop interior walls from cracking.

Pier and Beam foundation repair is similar to that of slab foundation, except this foundation is elevated from the soil and consist of wooden structures.

One difference between a slab foundation and a pier & beam foundation is a pier and beam foundation is more of a maintenance type of foundation.

Slab foundations do have problems, but they are designed to be more of a maintenance-free foundation.

Pier and beam foundations should be checked at least every other year.

The piers of a pier and beam foundation is like a pressure point that can only hold a certain amount of weight if a pier settles and stop holding all the weight it should, then the weight transfers to another pier and overloads that pier.

Over a small amount of time, this will create a snowball effect causing major problems.

This can cause:

• The structure to get out of level

• Walls to crack

• Doors and windows to stick

• The wooden beams and floor joist to brake

• The piers to weaken

• The roof to get out of line and leak

• The plumbing to get out of line and leak