Foundation Repair in Carrollton, TX

The plumbing question comes up more on slab houses

On a slab house the water lines run underneath the concrete, so a leak puts water into the soil under the pad where nobody can see it. That saturates the clay in one spot and can produce movement that looks exactly like ordinary settlement.

It is worth ruling out, because piering a house without finding the leak means the same movement comes back. If the readings suggest it, we will say so rather than quoting around it.

Downtown Carrollton is the exception to everything above

The square and the streets immediately around it predate the suburban expansion by decades, and the housing there is old enough to be pier and beam with crawl spaces underneath. It is a small pocket in a city that is otherwise slab, and it gets diagnosed completely differently.

If you are in that pocket, the first symptom you notice will probably be a floor that slopes rather than a crack in a wall, and the repair happens underneath the house instead of along the outside of a slab. Worth saying which part of Carrollton you are in when you call.

Newer does not mean settled

Houses built on ground that was farmland within living memory sit on fill and disturbed soil in places, and that soil keeps compacting for years. A house twenty years old moving is not unusual here and does not mean it was badly built.