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Cost of Foundation Repair

By on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Every concrete slab that may need repair presents its own symptoms and problems. Each situation is different. The guy next door to me had piers put in all around the perimeter of his house.  He had concrete push piers installed under a 2,000 square foot single-story house and he said he paid right around $7,000.  [...]

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Protecting Your House Foundation Means Working With Soaker Hoses

By on Monday, July 17th, 2006 | No Comments

I’m using soaker hoses around my concrete foundation in an attempt to keep a uniform layer of moisture in the clay soil on which my house sits. It’s the main tool we homeowners can use in trying to avoid the cost of foundation repair. I also noticed that I had too much soaker hose on [...]

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Foundation Repair, How Much Does it Cost?

By on Monday, June 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Calling up foundation repair companies and asking how much it would cost is like lurching your smoking car into the mechanic’s parking lot and asking him how may dollars it will take to fix it without even popping the hood. Both are going to say “it depends on what’s wrong.” A major factor in foundation [...]

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The Soaker Hose Samba For Your House Foundation

By on Thursday, June 8th, 2006 | No Comments

It’s that time of year again in Texas where the heat becomes relentless and the sun sucks moisture out of the soil faster than I can drain a Shiner Bock. It’s not a bad idea to have the soaker hoses running around your concrete slab foundation if it sits on elastic clay soil like mine [...]

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Local Man Gets Foundation Repair

By on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | 4 Comments

His name is Dennis and he lives down the street from me. I was coming back from an errand and drove past his house. All the tell-tale signs of a concrete foundation repair job in progress were there. Piles of dirt, piles of pilings, piles of caps. I went home, grabbed my digital camera, walked [...]

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