If you are new to the world of foundation piering, you are not alone. It can be stressful enough to have major work done on your foundation, never mind trying to understand what your contractor is talking about.
As you can imagine, foundation repair in older homes can be extensive and expensive. But it doesn’t always mean it isn’t worth it. In real estate speak, an older home is past 50 years old.
If the home you are looking to buy or sell needs foundation repair, is it a deal-breaker? Not necessarily. The foundation needs to be in great condition or in great repair with warranties. If you have your heart set on the house as a buyer, or you are willing to make repairs as a seller, […]
In Kansas and Missouri, the main reason that so many foundation issues occur is because of the type of soil present. If you live here, you know the clay in the soil can cause a lot of problems.
If you are like most Kansas City homeowners, you probably don’t give much thought to the foundation your home sits on. However, no matter if you have a slab house sitting on a basement floor, a rock foundation, block, and mortar foundation, or the more modern concrete foundation, all these forms are susceptible to damage.
Hello and welcome to the Kansas City Real Estate Industry Leaders podcast. I’m your host, John Linquist. And with me today, I have Eric Lancaster. And today we’re going to be talking about foundation settling and homes specifically from the point of view of a real estate agent. So just to sort of kick things […]
Hey, this is John Lindquist with KC Pier, and today I’m out in Bucyrus, Kansas, where we’ve got a wall pushback on a home where the yard’s just been pushing up against the poured foundation, just pushing it into the home. So you can see in this big wide open flat area that we’re in, […]
Hello everyone. This is John Linquist with KC PIER and today we’re out in Kansas City, Missouri, where we’ve got a porch with a rock foundation that’s been slowly just slipping and tipping into the earth. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to be putting in a four piers, which will support […]
So today we’re going to go over the piering system that KC Pier uses, called the DynaPier System. It is a concentrically loaded pier, which means that we don’t have to break the footing of the foundation. We go directly under the foundation wall, under the footing. So as we’re pushing, we use the weight […]
How’s it going, everybody? It’s Lucas Scheele with KC Pier and Kansas City Property Guys. And today, we’re actually out in South Kansas City, going to be looking at a foundation job that we’re doing out here and installing footings. And lucky for us, we got our Director of Operations, Brian Dufour, here on site […]