Foundation repair, basement waterproofing and concrete leveling in Cortland, NE

Cortland is worked out of our Lincoln, NE office. It is 16 miles from the middle of town, about 25 minutes on the road. The office is at 1133 Libra Dr, Lincoln, NE 68512.

Soil mapping within Cortland returns Wymore at about 80 percent of the survey, with Malmo alongside it. The texture split is 85 percent clay and 13 percent silt. Linear extensibility, the measure of how much a soil swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries, is weighted at 7.22 percent here, which USDA reads as high shrink swell potential. The sample inside the city runs 100 percent clay against 85 percent across Gage County, so the ground here is heavier than the county average. Based on NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals for the weather station east southeast of Crete, precipitation averages 31 inches a year and about 133 days a year have a low of 32 degrees or colder, so the soil beside a wall can be wet, dry or frozen at different times of the year. What is actually happening at your address is something we confirm on site, not something we read off a map.

The typical house dates to 1975, and the single biggest block of the stock, 73 homes, went up in the 1970s. Pre 1980 construction accounts for 142 homes here, and that is the group where original drainage is usually the story. Of the owner occupied homes, 64 percent carry a mortgage. Every inspection ends with a Customized Repair Estimate that describes what we found at that house.