Foundation Repair in Lansing, KS
Lansing has grown steadily and most of its housing is newer than neighboring Leavenworth, so the foundations we see here are largely poured concrete rather than stone. The problems are different and generally more straightforward.
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 Lansing
Lansing sits on rolling ground above the river valley with soils that move seasonally as moisture changes. Because most of the housing is relatively modern, the thing that shapes our work here is not the age of the wall but how the lot was built. Every foundation is backfilled, and that fill stays looser than the soil around it. It settles over the years and it also gives water an easy path straight down to the footing. On a subdivision lot that has been in place fifteen or twenty years, a sunken strip along the house and water reaching the cove joint are close to expected, and they are the cause behind a lot of the seepage calls we take.
What Lansing Calls Us For
Water leads the Lansing calls: seepage at the wall floor joint, damp and efflorescence on poured walls, and sump systems either absent or undersized for the roof area feeding them. Exterior work is a big part of the answer here, correcting grade that has settled into the backfill and getting downspout discharge well away from the house. Structurally, poured wall cracks are the common find, most of them vertical and manageable, some horizontal and worth acting on. We also get regular calls about settlement showing up upstairs before anything is visible in the basement.
Homes and Neighborhoods We Know in Lansing
Our Lansing coverage runs through the subdivisions off 7 Highway, the newer building on the south side of the city, and everything in between here and the Leavenworth line. Because Leavenworth sits immediately north, the two towns are a single stop for us and we are across the river into Platte County most weeks. Lansing lots are mostly modern and easy to work around, which usually means less hand digging and shorter days than the historic properties just up the road, and that shows in the number.
Lansing Foundation Questions
No, and we will tell you when yours is not. Narrow vertical cracks in poured walls are frequently shrinkage from curing and are not structural, though they can still let water in and be worth sealing. Horizontal cracks, stair stepping, and anything actively widening are a different matter. The direction and the pattern tell us most of what we need to know.
Watch it during a heavy spring rain. If it runs almost continuously or the pit refills as fast as it empties, it is undersized or the water volume reaching it has increased. A backup pump is also worth discussing, because a sump only helps if it is running when you need it.
Call and tell us it is active. We will get to you as quickly as we can. In the meantime, the most useful things you can do are get water away from the outside of the house, check that downspouts are discharging well clear, and clear any window well that is holding water.
Often it is not structural, but it can still be worth sealing because it lets water through. The judgement is about width, whether it is displaced, and whether it has changed. A narrow, stable, non-displaced vertical crack is usually a water question rather than a structural one.
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