Foundation repair and home services in Plattsmouth, NE

Plattsmouth is worked out of our Omaha, NE office. It is 19 miles from the middle of town, about 30 minutes on the road. The office is at 12305 Gold St, Ste 2, Omaha, NE 68144.

Soil mapping within Plattsmouth returns Monona at about 40 percent of the survey, with Marshall and Sarpy alongside it. The texture split is 77 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 5.41 percent here, which USDA reads as moderate shrink swell potential. The sample inside the city runs 40 percent clay against 77 percent across Cass County, so the ground here is lighter than the county average. 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.

The years before 1940 put up more homes than any other decade, 706 of them, and the median year built is 1968. 2,215 of those homes predate 1980, which is where we most often find footing drains that were never installed and backfill that was never compacted. 59 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.