Foundation Repair Across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas

Slab-on-grade homes across Shelby and DeSoto counties settle most often at exterior corners and along the side of the house that dries out fastest. Once one section drops, the slab bends, drywall tears at door corners, and mortar joints step-crack along the brick.

Our slab work starts with an elevation survey of the whole floor plate so the low areas are measured, not guessed. Depending on what the survey shows, we stabilize with steel push piers driven to load-bearing strata, or lift and support lighter loads with helical piers or polyurethane injection.

Older Midtown, Central Gardens, and small-town Mississippi homes are typically pier and beam over a crawl space. Their failures look different from slab failures: bouncy floors, a sag down the center of the house, and doors that only stick in summer.

The usual causes are settled interior support piers, rotted or crushed shims, undersized girders, and moisture in the crawl space softening the wood. We reset and rebuild the support system rather than patching the symptom above it.

Basements are less common here than in the Midwest, but the ones that exist take a beating: saturated clay pushes laterally against block or poured walls until they bow inward, crack horizontally, or shear at the bottom course.

Stabilizing a wall is a structural repair, not a coating. We install a system sized to the wall's height, thickness, and measured deflection, and we address the water that created the pressure in the first place.

Soft spots in front of a tub, a spongy kitchen floor, or a subfloor that flexes underfoot usually means sheathing has taken on moisture from below or from a slow plumbing leak above.

We remove the compromised sheathing, correct the moisture source, and replace with properly fastened material sized to the joist spacing so the floor is flat and quiet again.

Joists fail from the ends inward. In a damp crawl space, the bearing ends sitting on a sill plate or masonry pier rot first, then the joist rolls, drops, or splits along the grain.

Depending on the extent, we sister new lumber to sound members, replace the joist entirely, or add mid-span support with a new beam line and footings.