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  • Maintaining Your Foundation – Tips from a Licensed Professional Engineer
    27 Jan 2025
    Maintaining Your Foundation – Tips from a Licensed Professional Engineer
    The Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas is known as the “Blackland Prairie.” Many years ago, pioneers settled in North Texas due to the area’s outstanding agricultural potential. While expansive clay soils in the Dallas Fort Worth area are excellent for crop production,...
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  • Home Repair Contractors
    20 Jan 2025
    5 Tips For Dealing with Home Repair Contractors
    5 Tips for Dealing with Home Repair Contractors Home repair contractors range from honest and hardworking … to unreliable and dishonest. Although it would not be fair to make a sweeping generalization, it is safe to say that any time you decide to invest in costly...
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  • Texas Shifting Soil – Avoid Foundation Problems | Thomas Engineering Consultants
    16 Jan 2025
    Texas’ Shifting Soil — How to Avoid Foundation Problems
    Living on Unstable Ground In much of North Texas, homes are built on expansive clay soils. These soils swell when wet and shrink when dry, putting stress on your foundation over time. The result? Cracks, uneven floors, and other signs of movement that can worsen without proper evaluation. At Thomas
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  • Pick a Foundation Engineer
    13 Jan 2025
    How to Pick a Foundation Engineer
    Walk around the inside and outside of your home, or a house that you are interested in buying. Do you see any of the signs mentioned below? Cracks in interior walls, brick fireplace wall, or between the exterior bricks Nails that have popped out from the plaster or...
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  • Foundation Repair Methods
    06 Jan 2025
    Foundation Repair Methods
    Your home’s foundation can be beset by numerous types of problems, and it’s a good thing that there are several ways to improve a foundation. Sometimes, though, foundation specialists may offer several different solutions to a particular type of problem. And as the...
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  • Why Is There a Metal Rod Sticking Out of My Foundation?
    01 Jan 2025
    Why Is There a Metal Rod Sticking Out of My Foundation?
    Help, Metal Rod Sticking out of Foundatio The Trial and Tribulation of a millennial Homeowner...
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