While slab homes are common in new Killeen developments, many older properties in Bell County utilize pier and beam construction. We frequently see issues with inadequate ventilation and settling interior piers.

Our crew allows you to preserve your home's value by re-leveling the subfloor and installing additional support piers to handle the heavy clay loads typical of the region.

Pier and Beam foundation repair is similar to that of slab foundation, except this foundation is elevated from the soil and consist of wooden structures.

One difference between a slab foundation and a pier & beam foundation is a pier and beam foundation is more of a maintenance type of foundation.

Slab foundations do have problems, but they are designed to be more of a maintenance-free foundation.

Pier and beam foundations should be checked at least every other year.

The piers of a pier and beam foundation is like a pressure point that can only hold a certain amount of weight if a pier settles and stop holding all the weight it should, then the weight transfers to another pier and overloads that pier.

Over a small amount of time, this will create a snowball effect causing major problems.

This can cause:

• The structure to get out of level

• Walls to crack

• Doors and windows to stick

• The wooden beams and floor joist to brake

• The piers to weaken

• The roof to get out of line and leak

• The plumbing to get out of line and leak