Foundation Repair in Excelsior Springs, MO
Excelsior Springs has some of the oldest housing we work on and it is built into hills, which is a demanding combination for a foundation. A lot of what we do here involves walls that are holding back ground as much as holding up a house.
Foundation & Waterproofing Services
Crack Foundation Repair
When your foundation settles, it can cause cracks that let water leak straight into your home. Our team determines the best process to seal…
Learn more →Sump Pump & Interior Drainage
If you have hydrostatic water pressure, water pushing through where the wall and floor meet, a sump pump or below-floor drainage system may be…
Learn more →French Drain & Track Drain Systems
When water is pooling against your foundation, or yards are sloping towards your foundation, a French drain system will help divert that water away…
Learn more →Backfilling & Grading
Water that runs toward your house instead of away from it puts constant pressure on your foundation. We backfill and regrade the soil around…
Learn more →Foundation Wall Supports
Walls bowing inward or horizontal cracks running across them mean soil pressure is winning. Our team, and a structural engineer when needed, determines which…
Learn more →Piering & Underpinning
Cracks in upper-level sheetrock or significant settling that makes floors unlevel often calls for piering beneath your foundation footing. Working with a structural engineer,…
Learn more →What The Ground Does Under Excelsior Springs
Excelsior Springs is hilly, and slope changes everything about how a foundation is loaded. A basement wall on the uphill side of a house on a grade is retaining soil, and when that soil is saturated clay it pushes hard and keeps pushing. Water on a hillside also concentrates rather than spreading out, so runoff from above frequently arrives at one elevation of the house in volume. The housing stock adds the third factor: many of these foundations are stone or early block, built long before drainage or waterproofing were standard, and they were designed to carry weight downward rather than resist sustained lateral load.
What Excelsior Springs Calls Us For
Hillside wall work is the core of it. Stabilising and supporting walls that have bowed or cracked under slope pressure, rebuilding and repointing failed sections of stone and masonry, and dealing with the water arriving from uphill. Interior drainage and sump systems come up often because there is usually no exterior drainage in place to improve. We also see a lot of settlement on these properties, frequently at one corner where the slope beneath has moved, and a fair amount of crawl space work on the older housing.
Homes and Neighborhoods We Know in Excelsior Springs
Our Excelsior Springs coverage includes the streets around the historic downtown, the older residential blocks climbing the hills, and the properties spreading into eastern Clay County and across into Ray County. Lawson, Holt, Kearney and Liberty all sit within the same working radius. Because a great many properties here are on a grade with narrow or steep approaches, how we can physically reach a wall is part of the assessment, and anything that affects the work gets raised before we quote rather than after.
Excelsior Springs Foundation Questions
Very. The uphill wall receives both the soil pressure and the runoff from everything above it, so it is doing far more work than the downhill side. It also means there is a specific source to find, which is usually better news than water appearing all round.
Yes, and it is regular work for us on properties of this age. The approach differs from block or poured concrete because the construction and the way it fails are different. What matters is stopping the movement and addressing the water, not applying a modern wall's playbook to a nineteenth century one.
No. Plenty of century old basements can be made genuinely dry. It usually takes a combination of managing the water outside and interior drainage inside, because these houses rarely have anything below grade working for them. It is not a lost cause just because it has always been that way.
Yes, when they are moving. Porches and steps usually sit on shallower footings than the house and on a hillside lot they settle sooner and further. They are frequently the first visible sign that ground beneath one side of the property is moving.
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