“The vast majority of home foundation repairs in Texas are NOT designed to succeed. And if they don’t succeed then they are a failure,” stated Martin Dawson of Dawson Foundation Repair in Houston, Texas. “However they do succeed in putting a lot of profit into the pockets of the foundation repair contractors.” For the past …
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“Virtually every foundation repair company in Houston would go bankrupt if they had to refund the money from their failed foundation repair jobs,” declared Martin Dawson of Dawson Foundation Repair. “The majority of their jobs will fail in less than ten years and usually a lot sooner. The reason is that they use a low …
Elevating Your House “I have never seen this level of demand for house elevations in Houston. People can count and they have lived through four major rain and flood events in the past six years,” commented Martin Dawson, owner of Dawson Foundation Repair. “You can call it climate change or you can call it bad …
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“The almost daily rain during the summer of 2021 has, and will continue to have, dramatic consequences for home foundations and foundation repair in the Sugar Land area,” stated Martin Dawson, owner of Dawson Foundation Repair. “This summer is the opposite of the summer of 2011. That was the year we experienced the worst drought …
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Best Sugar Land Foundation Repair Company Many companies claim to be the best Sugar Land Foundation Repair company but Dawson Foundation Repair is truly the best. Why? More time, more concrete, more labor, more steel rebar – a superior foundation repair method called Bell Bottom Piers. The Causes Of Foundation Movement The Fort Bend County …
The majority of home damage is caused by settlement – the hot weather evaporates the moisture and the clay soils shrink in volume. With no support, the slab foundation will crack and settle (fall) to the elevation of the shrunken soil. Since the house rests upon the slab, some of it will also settle, creating …
This press release describes some of the foundation problems being experienced by home owners – the fact that pier and beam home foundations continue to suffer after Hurricane Harvey. Some homes rest on a pier and beam foundation rather than a concrete slab foundation. These pier and beam foundations sit on clay soils. When Hurricane …
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Our press release of March 29, 2017, repeated our mantra that home builders in Texas build concrete slab foundations that are “minimally functional.” And in many cases they don’t even qualify for that low standard. Failed Home Foundations Are The Norm in Texas. At Dawson Foundation Repair we receive calls daily from people that own …
Well, here we go again. Another “Minimally Functional Foundation.” This is an expensive house and it is displaying signs of foundation damage at one year of age. Perhaps these cracks are purely cosmetic but we are not optimistic because they have appeared shortly after construction and this homeowner clearly has a foundation issue. Why would …
This Houston homeowner is requesting a foundation inspection after seeing a few cracks in the floor. He is contacting us because two of his neighbors are foundation repair referrals. The good news is that it appears from the email that these cracks are not large. The bad news is that his neighbors have had foundation …
