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

Seward is worked out of our Lincoln, NE office. It is 24 miles from the middle of town, about 40 minutes on the road. The office is at 1133 Libra Dr, Lincoln, NE 68512.

The mapped soil in Seward is Hastings at about 60 percent of the survey, with Muir alongside it. By texture that survey runs 63 percent clay and 33 percent silt. The weighted linear extensibility figure, which is how much the soil changes volume between wet and dry, sits at 6.2 percent, a high shrink swell rating. Based on NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals for the Seward weather station, precipitation averages 28.7 inches a year and about 142 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 largest group of homes here by build period, 520 of them, went up before 1940; the median build year is 1975. The 1,677 homes finished before 1980 are the ones where drainage was rarely engineered and backfill was rarely compacted. 16 percent of the housing here, 422 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. Mortgages sit on 61 percent of the owner occupied homes in Seward. Every inspection ends with a Customized Repair Estimate that describes what we found at that house.