Pier and Beam Foundation Repair
Reshimming, rotted sill and beam replacement, new piers and crawl space moisture control for pre-1960 homes.
Service region · 4 core neighborhoods
Foundation Repair
Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
Rock, thin soil and fast-built subdivisions from Bandera Road to Boerne. Helotes, Boerne, Leon Valley and Alamo Ranch. Hill Country limestone with thin soil and caliche under 1990s to 2020s subdivisions, a 1960s enclave on clay along Huebner Creek, and the fastest-growing corner of the metro where lots were scraped and graded in a hurry.
- Typical travel around 35 minutes
- 4 core neighborhoods
- Written proposal after the evaluation
Evaluation in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
Tell us what the house is doing. You get an honest read on urgency and a written proposal after the evaluation.
~35 min
Typical travel across Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
4
Neighborhood guides
8–12
Piers most homes need
PE
Engineer's report when the job calls for it
About Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
What a foundation crew sees in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
Every region in our coverage has its own mix of soil, housing era, foundation type and trouble spots. Knowing which one you are in is what gets the right rig on the truck.
Core neighborhoods
Helotes, Boerne, Leon Valley and Alamo Ranch, plus the ZIP codes between them.
Notes from the Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country crew
The northwest is rock country with one clay exception. Helotes, Boerne and Alamo Ranch grew fast from the 1990s through the 2020s on Edwards and Glen Rose limestone with thin soil, caliche and karst, inside or next to the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. Builders scraped and graded lots to make them flat, which means a slab can sit on solid rock at one end and on a few feet of loose fill at the other. That fill settles, and the post-tension slab above it tilts toward the low corner.
Pressed concrete pilings often refuse within a few feet on this ground, so the plan moves to steel piers that can reach a consistent stratum, and the count goes down while the price per pier goes up. Drainage matters more than soil here: water sheets across rock, finds the house, and sits in the fill. Boerne, the Kendall County seat, has its own permit office and utility and a historic Main Street core with older stone buildings. Leon Valley is the exception, a 1960s enclave inside Loop 410 on Bandera Road where the houses are thin slabs on clay along Huebner Creek, with a flooding history and mature trees, and the failures look like the rest of the clay side of the city.
What we see most
Four patterns cover most Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country evaluations
The truck is loaded for these before it leaves: pilings or steel for the local soil, jacks, shims, and the drainage gear.
Fill settlement and slabs poured partly on rock and partly on scraped soil in 2000s to 2020s Alamo Ranch and Helotes subdivisions
Caliche and thin soil over limestone that gives shallow, uneven bearing and stops concrete pilings early, pushing jobs to steel piers
1960s to 1970s slabs on clay in Leon Valley moving with Huebner Creek flooding and mature trees
Boerne's Hill Country lots where drainage runs across rock into the slab and the city runs its own permit office and utility
Where we cover
Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country neighborhoods we serve
Open a neighborhood for the local context: soil, housing era, foundation type, what fails there and how fast an evaluation can realistically happen.
- 78023
Helotes
Post-tension slabs on scraped and filled hillside lots settling toward the low corner in 1990s to 2020s subdivisions
- 78006
Boerne
2000s to 2020s subdivisions on limestone and fill settling unevenly on cut-and-fill lots as Boerne grew
- 78238
Leon Valley
1960s to 1970s thin slabs on clay cracking at the corners and heaving over leaking cast iron drains
- 78253
Alamo Ranch
2000s to 2020s tract homes on scraped lots where the topsoil was removed and the slab poured on whatever was left, clay in places and caliche in others
Services across Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
Every service, same written proposal
Slab Foundation Repair
Pressed concrete pilings, steel piers or drilled piers under a settled slab, with a hydrostatic test before and after the lift.
Foundation Inspection
Elevation survey, crack mapping and an honest read on whether the house needs piers, drainage or just watching.
Foundation Leveling
Lifting a settled house back toward level in stages, doors closing again, and a written elevation record.
Foundation Crack Repair
Which cracks are cosmetic, which are structural, and epoxy or polyurethane injection once the cause is fixed.
Foundation Leak Repair
Hydrostatic testing, tunneling under the slab and drain repair when wet clay is heaving one side of the house.
How a Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country job runs
Evaluate, test, propose, press, test again
The same four stages on every Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country job, whether it is a 1920s pier and beam or a 2015 post-tension slab.
Evaluate
Elevation survey with a level, crack map inside and out, drainage, trees and the foundation type. Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country houses are read against the soil they sit on.
Test the plumbing
Hydrostatic test on the drain lines before anyone talks about piers. A leak under the slab changes the plan and sometimes the insurance answer.
Propose in writing
Method, pier count and locations, price, schedule and warranty terms on paper. If the honest answer is drainage or watching, that is what the paper says.
Press, lift, test again
Piers pressed to refusal, house lifted in stages, second plumbing test, holes backfilled, elevations recorded, engineer's letter if required.
Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country questions
What Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country owners ask first
Straight answers on scheduling, the regional failure pattern, which neighborhoods we cover and cost per pier.
All questionsHow quickly can you evaluate a house in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country?
Typical travel across Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country is around 35 minutes, and evaluations are usually scheduled within a few days. Sudden movement after a plumbing leak goes ahead of routine evaluations. You get a real window on the phone based on where the crew is actually working. While you wait, photograph the cracks with a coin for scale and note where water pools around the slab after rain.
What foundation problems are most common in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country?
Two patterns account for most Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country evaluations: fill settlement and slabs poured partly on rock and partly on scraped soil in 2000s to 2020s Alamo Ranch and Helotes subdivisions, and caliche and thin soil over limestone that gives shallow, uneven bearing and stops concrete pilings early, pushing jobs to steel piers. Drought summers and wet springs move the soil everywhere in the metro, so seasonal cracks, sticking doors and brick separation at the corners show up in every region.
Which Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country neighborhoods do you cover?
Our core Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country list is Helotes, Boerne, Leon Valley and Alamo Ranch, and the surrounding ZIP codes are covered on the same basis. If you are on the edge of the service footprint, tell us the neighborhood and we will be honest about the evaluation window before anything is booked.
What does foundation repair cost in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country?
Typical San Antonio ranges apply across Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country: pressed concrete pilings $350 to $600 per pier, steel piers $1,000 to $1,800 per pier, and most homes need 8 to 12 piers, so a typical slab repair lands between $4,500 and $14,000. Pier and beam leveling runs $1,500 to $5,000 before rotted wood is replaced. Drainage correction and root barriers often cost less than piers and are sometimes the whole fix. Every number goes in a written proposal after the evaluation.
Foundation repair in Northwest San Antonio & the Hill Country
Tell us the neighborhood and what the house is doing.
You get an evaluation window, an honest read on urgency and a written proposal only if the house needs work.