Pier and beam foundations are common in Fort Worth's older, established neighborhoods — the TCU district, Fairmount, Arlington Heights, and other areas built up before slab-on-grade became the standard. These foundations sit on a system of piers and wood beams with a crawl space underneath, which fails differently than a slab: sagging or bouncy floors, gaps between walls and floors, and wood rot or moisture damage in the crawl space itself are more common complaints than the diagonal cracking typical of slab settlement.
Our pier and beam repair addresses both the structural piers themselves — which can settle, rot at the base, or simply have been undersized for the load when the home was originally built — and the wood framing and beams they support, since moisture damage in a Fort Worth crawl space is common enough that structural wood repair is frequently part of the same job. We assess the crawl space directly rather than working from floor-level symptoms alone, since a lot of pier and beam problems are only fully visible from underneath the house.
For homes with persistent moisture issues driving the wood damage, we address the underlying moisture source — grading, drainage, or vapor barrier work — as part of the repair, since replacing rotted framing without fixing what's causing the rot is a short-term fix.
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