Foundation repair in Katy
Cracked walls, sloping floors, sticking doors, a slab that's moved, beams that have dropped. Katy sits on Gulf Coast Prairie soil that's given the whole area a reputation for foundation movement. Tell us what you're seeing and we'll come out and measure the house, free, with no obligation.
- Free inspection with proper elevation readings
- Fixed written price before any work starts
- Strong warranty on every repair we do
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Katy and surrounding areas.
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Foundation work in Katy
Your foundation is everything holding the house up: the slab or the piers and beams beneath the floor, the soil they sit on, and the drainage keeping that soil stable. When any part of it moves, the damage shows up somewhere else. We work on all of it.
Why houses move here
Katy sits in the Gulf Coast Prairie, and the soil directly under much of the original town is mapped by the USDA as the Katy series, a deep, loamy soil formed over the old Lissie Formation. Around it, in the newer growth to the west and south, the ground is often heavier black clay typical of the greater Houston gumbo belt. Both types move with moisture, though the heavier clay tends to move more.
Katy's growth has been almost entirely new construction on engineered fill, in large master-planned communities like Cinco Ranch, Cross Creek Ranch and Firethorne. Some other repair companies in the area report a pattern of consolidation settling showing up roughly five to twelve years after a home is built, as fill soil continues compacting, though this varies lot to lot and we haven't benchmarked it against our own data yet.
Older, established parts of Katy nearer the original townsite have had longer to settle, and the housing stock there tends to be different in age and foundation type from the newer subdivisions further out.
We measure every house before quoting, because how a lot was graded and filled during development matters as much as the general soil type.
Katy at a glance
- Dominant problem
- Gulf Coast Prairie soils. Loamy Katy-series ground near the original townsite, heavier gumbo clay in much of the newer growth.
- Typical foundation
- Slab-on-grade, the large majority of construction here.
- What we usually reach
- Varies by how the lot was graded and filled, more than by depth alone.
- Worst season
- Late summer, after the clay has been shrinking through the hottest months.
- Newer construction
- Some repair companies report settling in newer subdivisions in the five-to-twelve-year range as fill continues compacting. This varies by lot.
- Typical job
- Usually one to three days on site for most homes.
What we see in different neighborhoods
Cinco Ranch, Cross Creek Ranch, Firethorne
Large master-planned communities on engineered fill. Some settling is commonly reported in the years after construction as that fill continues to compact.
The original Katy townsite area
Older, established housing stock that has generally had more time to settle than the newer subdivisions further out.
Newer growth west and south of town
Recently developed lots where graded and filled soil may still be settling. Worth a baseline inspection even on a young house.
Areas bordering Fulshear and Brookshire
Transitional ground between Katy's soils and the surrounding prairie, with conditions that can vary lot to lot.
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Pricing in Katy
Price depends on several things together, and in Katy, how a lot was graded and filled during development is one of the more significant factors. These are the ranges most jobs fall into.