Enough with the sticking door already

I don’t know why it happened this morning but I couldn’t take any more of the silent taunting from the door that leads from the kitchen to the garage. “I’m just really hard to open and close,” it would say, “and your handy-man skills are puny. Go back to your computer.”
Maybe it was watching the [...]

Is it foundation movement or something else?

If you are seeing weird things with walls or floors inside or outside of the house you may be wondering if the foundation needs repair or if something else is going on. Are those cracks in the garage walls the result of concrete foundation movement or because the space has become the rehearsal hall for [...]

Reading the Cracks

Think diagonal.
Vertical cracks in the interior walls are not usually a sign of structural failure unless they are obviously wider at one end than the other. Your concrete foundation may be OK.

Vertical cracks in the interior walls may be unattractive and honey-do worthy, but are not usually an indication of structural failure unless they [...]

Along the outside walls, piles of dirt

Another house down the street is having the concrete foundation repaired. You drive by and notice dirt piles all along the perimeter of the home, bobbing hard hats in holes and concrete cylinders stacked in front. In the past three years or so at least a half dozen houses on my street have had foundation [...]

“I know we have problems with our souls.”

Ain’t that the truth.
You can’t turn on the radio in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area without hearing baseball legend Nolan Ryan pitching concrete foundation repair for a major player in the fix-my-slab business. I always smile at the way he pronounces the word “soils.” Like many a fine Texan, the word drawls out of his mouth [...]

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