Please review this short four minute video produced  by a well respected Texas structural engineer. I had never met or talked to the man when I received this unsolicited copy asking my permission to use it on his website. Of course I said yes. See what you think. The information can be very helpful to your business.

Let me tell you a little about myself.

I am going to quickly sum up why I feel you should keep me in mind for those times that you aren’t quite sure that you have the  foundation answers you need for the current location.

• I have spent the last forty years helping folks solve foundation issues in Texas and surrounding areas. Twenty-four years as a foundation repair contractor and the rest as a foundation repair and drainage consultant.
• When I entered the foundation industry I was drinking the same Kool Aid as everyone else. "IF IT MOVED...PIER IT" was the battle cry. Sounded good but IT WAS WRONG.1
• As a foundation repair contractor, I came to find that most foundation repair contractors in North Texas were not solving foundation problems in a satisfactory manner using piers, including my self. What I found: piers were OFTEN NOT THE ANSWER.
• I was doing the same as everyone else... if it moved, we piered it!
• I found that many customers were being sold piers they did not need and did not solve the problems.
• I found that many consumers were being over charged for the work that was performed
• I found that most foundation company “inspectors” were in fact commissioned sales people who had to sell piers to get paid.
• I found that MUCH of the foundation movement and damage is the result of bad drainage and upheaval as opposed to settlement.
• I found that the foundation companies are unregulated, no state licensing or over site, at least in Texas.
• I found that city permits for the most part are designed as a tax for the city and not a protection for the consumer.
• I found that most if not all foundation companies take scientifically flawed foundation elevations to "convince" the consumer that the foundation had settled, when if fact upheaval was the cause of the problem.
• I found that a good percentage of the registered engineers specializing in remedial residential foundation repair were in bed with a small number of foundation repair companies and traded business with the pier companies.
• I found that those engineers were also using the flawed elevations to assist there “special contractors” in selling piers.
• I found that in return the “special contractors” were writing contracts and sending their proposals along with fees to the engineer for rubber stamped approve of the contractors proposal.
• I found that most foundation repair contracts are written to demand that any warranted dispute must be taken to arbitration which favors the contractor.
• I found out that most of the foundation repair companies learned how to write foundation repair contracts and warranties to heavily favor the companies over the consumers.

 I have found that most foundation repair fails, because of upheaval (which most failures are) and the foundation  repair warranties covers only settlement which is seldom the problem. 

That means many foundation repair customers get screwed and can do nothing about it!

Please call me for additional information.

817-308-8186. Evenings and weekends OK