Foundation Introduction

Good morning everyone.

In Texas houses are built on 1 of 3 different foundations, two of which are very common.

There is the prominent slab on grade. To most this is just cement slab.

Then there is the pier and beam or crawl space.

This is followed by the far less common basement.

All 3 of these serve the same purpose of transferring the weight of the house “dead load”, and the weight of its contents and people, as well as wind or snow or other force that is not constant “live load” to the soil. Each of these perform in different manners to accomplish the same goal, and all have issues from time to time. I will tackle each of these in a small series of posts, 1 for each. As always, we are here for you.

Please call us with any of your inspection needs, or if you just simply have a question.