If you own a home with a concrete slab foundation that sits on heavy clay soils that expand and shrink with the weather, sooner or later you are going to wonder if the foundation might be damaged. If you have doors or windows that stick, uneven floors, or diagonal cracks in the inside walls or outside bricks, you may be facing a repair job.
So how much is it going to be, what is the cost of foundation repair? The straight answer: it depends.
The costs vary because each situation is different. It depends on how many piers are needed to underpin the foundation. You may need piers all around the house or maybe just in front. One of the worst cases is when you have a foundation that slumps in the middle. The repair company has two choices. Either tear up floors or go in underneath with tunnels.
The cost can also vary by types of piers needed. Steel, bell-bottom (or drilled) and concrete pilings are the most common types. Helical steel piers are sometimes needed on hillsides. There are just too many variables to be able to just throw out a general figure for how much the job might cost.
Here is what I do know. I live in North Central Texas and two of my neighbors have had foundation repair. Their foundation repair costs were both about $7,000. I was nosy enough to ask.
Granit Foundation Repair lists the average cost for the Dallas-Fort Worth area at $5000 to $7000. Down around the Austin-San Antonio area in Central Texas, Centex Foundation Repair puts the average cost at $5646.
In Louisiana, Jericho Foundation Repair puts it this way: "We have been able to establish a consistent cost for an average foundation repair. Slab foundation, the average cost is approximately $3,000. We have completed repairs for as little as $250 and as much as $30,000 on a single home. The price varies with each home".
You can see that there are a lot of variables at play when determining what the foundation repair cost is going to be. Remember, I'm just a homeowner/writer and not in the foundation repair business in any way. But many experts give this advice: Get your foundation inspection done by an independent professional structural engineer with foundation experience who has no financial ties to any repair company. Then get at least three bids from repair companies if the engineer thinks repairs are needed. From there, make your choice.
So how much is it going to be, what is the cost of foundation repair? The straight answer: it depends.
The costs vary because each situation is different. It depends on how many piers are needed to underpin the foundation. You may need piers all around the house or maybe just in front. One of the worst cases is when you have a foundation that slumps in the middle. The repair company has two choices. Either tear up floors or go in underneath with tunnels.
The cost can also vary by types of piers needed. Steel, bell-bottom (or drilled) and concrete pilings are the most common types. Helical steel piers are sometimes needed on hillsides. There are just too many variables to be able to just throw out a general figure for how much the job might cost.
Here is what I do know. I live in North Central Texas and two of my neighbors have had foundation repair. Their foundation repair costs were both about $7,000. I was nosy enough to ask.
Granit Foundation Repair lists the average cost for the Dallas-Fort Worth area at $5000 to $7000. Down around the Austin-San Antonio area in Central Texas, Centex Foundation Repair puts the average cost at $5646.
In Louisiana, Jericho Foundation Repair puts it this way: "We have been able to establish a consistent cost for an average foundation repair. Slab foundation, the average cost is approximately $3,000. We have completed repairs for as little as $250 and as much as $30,000 on a single home. The price varies with each home".
You can see that there are a lot of variables at play when determining what the foundation repair cost is going to be. Remember, I'm just a homeowner/writer and not in the foundation repair business in any way. But many experts give this advice: Get your foundation inspection done by an independent professional structural engineer with foundation experience who has no financial ties to any repair company. Then get at least three bids from repair companies if the engineer thinks repairs are needed. From there, make your choice.
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