Arlington sits on the same expansive clay soil belt as Fort Worth, and we see a similar range of foundation issues here — slab settlement in the city's extensive mid-century and newer subdivisions, with some pier and beam construction in older pockets near downtown Arlington. Lake Arlington's proximity affects drainage and groundwater conditions for nearby properties, which we factor into inspections in that part of the city.
Arlington's rapid growth over the past several decades means we're servicing everything from established 1960s and 70s neighborhoods to newer construction, each with different foundation ages and different failure patterns to assess. Much of that mid-century building boom tracked the General Motors assembly plant that opened in Arlington in 1954 and the growth of the University of Texas at Arlington, both of which pulled new subdivisions up around them.
Arlington's entertainment district around AT&T Stadium, Globe Life Field, and Six Flags Over Texas sits on some of the more heavily engineered commercial soil in the city, but the residential neighborhoods radiating out from it — the same 1960s and 70s subdivisions built up around the GM plant and UTA's growth — sit on the same expansive clay found throughout Tarrant County, just without the extensive drainage engineering commercial development gets. That gap between commercial-grade drainage near the entertainment district and older residential grading further out is part of why we treat every Arlington inspection as its own assessment rather than assuming citywide soil behavior.
As one of the largest cities in the country without its own dedicated transit rail line, Arlington's growth has followed its road network closely, and that pattern shows up in how subdivisions were graded and drained relative to arterial roads built at the same time. Neighborhoods that developed with retention ponds and modern stormwater systems tend to see more even drainage around foundations than older pockets built before those requirements were standard, which is one of the first things we check during an Arlington inspection.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Arlington
Our Services in Arlington
- Slab Foundation Repair in Arlington
- Pier and Beam Foundation Repair in Arlington
- Steel Push Piers in Arlington
- Helical Piers in Arlington
- Concrete Pressed Piers in Arlington
- Foundation Leveling in Arlington
- Crawl Space Repair & Encapsulation in Arlington
- Drainage & French Drain Installation in Arlington
- Foundation Crack Repair in Arlington
- Commercial Foundation Repair in Arlington
- Concrete Slab Lifting & Mudjacking in Arlington
- Post-Tension Cable Repair in Arlington
- Foundation Inspection Reports & Engineer Certifications in Arlington