Push piers, Waldo
"Our back bedroom door would not close and the floor was two inches low. Six piers later the door swings shut on its own again."
Imran ChowdhuryWaldo
Foundation repair in Kansas City
Level floors, dry basements.
Push piers, wall anchors and waterproofing across the Kansas City metro. Every job starts with a floor elevation survey, so you see the numbers before we suggest a single pier.
- Lifetimetransferable warranty
- 2 to 3 daysfor most pier jobs
- Freesurvey and report
Floor elevation surveyJob 2318, Brookside, inches from reference
Back left corner 2.4 in low. The bedroom door there will not close.
Crack reader
Which cracks matter, and which do not
Most basement cracks are harmless. Tell us which way yours runs and how wide it is, and you get the honest answer we would give on site.
Which way does it run?
How wide is it?
Low concern
Normal shrinkage
Most poured walls crack like this as the concrete cures. Seal it if it lets water in, and pencil a line at each end to see if it grows.
If it needs fixingCrack injection, $450
Push piers
Through the clay, down to rock
Kansas City clay swells in wet springs and shrinks in dry summers, and footings ride along with it. A pier ignores the clay and carries the house on limestone instead.
- 01
Dig beside the footing
A small pit at each pier spot, with the lawn cut out and set aside.
- 02
Drive it with the house
Steel sections are pushed down using the weight of the house itself, until they hit rock.
- 03
Test, lift, and backfill
Each pier is load tested, the corner lifted back toward level, and the lawn put back.
From $1,950 a pier. Most homes need six to ten.
Waterproofing
From damp block walls to a room you use
- from $85 a ft
Interior drain tile
A channel under the floor edge carries water to the sump before it reaches the room.
- $1,850
Sump pump, battery backup
Keeps pumping through the storm that knocks the power out.
- from $750
Wall anchors
Stop a bowing wall and pull it back as the soil allows.
- $450
Crack injection
Seals a leaking crack from the inside, wall to wall.
Reviews
Kansas City, back on the level
Waterproofing, Prairie Village
"Every spring the basement flooded. Drain tile and a sump with a battery backup, and it has stayed dry through two wet Aprils."
Hal and Judy BrennerPrairie Village
Wall anchors, Liberty
"The inspector showed me the horizontal crack was worse than it looked. The anchors went in in a day, and the wall is holding straight."
Tyler VossLiberty
Hairline vertical cracks usually are. Horizontal cracks, stair step cracks in block walls and anything wider than a quarter inch are worth an inspection.
Often, yes. Push piers are driven to rock and can lift the settled corner back up, usually to within half an inch.
Most jobs take two to three days, and you can stay in the house the whole time.
Yes. The lifetime warranty on piers and anchors passes to the next owner, which buyers and their inspectors like to see.
Our clay swells when it is wet and shrinks in drought, so footings move a little every year. Piers bypass the clay and sit on rock.
Free inspection
We measure before we sell anything
An inspector runs a floor elevation survey, checks every wall, and leaves a written report with photos, whether you need us or not.
