Foundation & basement repair in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Soil conditions vary across Lincoln, and can change significantly from block to block, so we don't assume a single soil type for the whole city. Moisture swings and seasonal freeze-thaw cycling are common drivers of foundation movement in this region. The specific cause at your home is something we confirm with a full on-site inspection, not something we assume from an address.

The Lincoln homes we see most often for water and settlement problems are the ones built before the 1970s, which predate modern drainage requirements; that is the usual driver behind basement waterproofing in Lincoln. Newer subdivisions built on fill can settle for years after construction, so the age of a house alone does not decide it, and the inspection does.

Lincoln is home to our headquarters on Libra Drive, so inspections in Lincoln are scheduled straight from the office.

Yes, fully free, no obligation. A local specialist comes to your home, evaluates the issue, and gives you a written explanation of what they find. You decide what, if anything, to do next.

The office is in town. The office is at 1133 Libra Dr, Lincoln, NE 68512. The crew starts the day from there, so there is no drive in from another market.

A city level sample here returns urban fill, not a natural series. Widen it to Lancaster County and the USDA survey reads Wymore at about 20 percent of the survey, with Aksarben and Pawnee alongside it. The texture split is 82 percent clay and 9 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 6.73 percent here, which USDA reads as high shrink swell potential. Frost in this part of the state reaches 36 to 42 inches, and the ground cycles through freeze and thaw 60 to 80 times a year, so the same soil is loading and unloading a wall all year. What is actually happening at your address is something we confirm on site, not something we read off a map.

Most of what we walk into here was built in the 1970s, 18,536 homes, around a median build year of 1980. Pre 1980 construction accounts for 62,707 homes here, and that is the group where original drainage is usually the story. 29 percent of the housing here, 34,043 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. 64 percent of owner occupied homes here carry a mortgage, which is usually why a lender or an appraiser is the first to ask about a crack. Every inspection ends with a Customized Repair Estimate that describes what we found at that house.

All of them. Bethany, College View, Haymarket, Highlands, University Place and West Lincoln are all inside the city limits, and every address inside those limits is worked by the same crew on the same terms.