Lubbock & the South Plains
Your foundation is telling you something. Find out what.
Cracked brick, a door that stopped latching, a floor that dips toward the middle. We connect Lubbock homeowners with a local foundation repair pro who will measure the problem before anyone quotes a price.
Floor elevation survey · sampleDatum 0.0″
Readings taken across the slab on a grid. The shape of the curve — not the cracks — tells you what the foundation is doing.
Request a foundation quote
Tell us what you are seeing. Your request goes to a local foundation repair pro who will contact you directly. No cost, no obligation.
Why houses move here
Lubbock does not have a foundation problem. It has a water problem.
The city sits at 3,202 feet on the Llano Estacado, one of the flattest large surfaces in North America. Rain that falls here does not run to a creek, because there mostly are no creeks. It collects in playa basins — closed depressions with no outlet, roughly one per square mile across the Southern High Plains — or it soaks in where it lands.
Then there is how much falls. The long-term average at the Lubbock station is about 18.6 inches a year, and that average tells you almost nothing useful. The record runs from 8.73 inches in 1917 to 40.55 inches in 1941. More recently the city took 8.81 inches in 2003 and 33.25 inches in 2004 — back-to-back years at opposite ends of the record. Every slab in town rode out that swing.
Soil that dries, shrinks and pulls away from a foundation, then takes on water and swells back, is soil that moves a house. That is the whole mechanism, and almost everything on this site comes back to it.
- Annual rainfall~18.6″Long-term average at the Lubbock station
- Record range8.73″ – 40.55″Driest 1917, wettest 1941
- Elevation3,202 ftSemi-arid steppe, Köppen BSk
- Playa density~1 per sq miClosed basins, floored with swelling clay
What we connect you with
Foundation services across Lubbock County
Tell us what you are seeing and we will route you to a local pro who handles that kind of work.
Foundation Inspection
Start here if you are not sure anything is wrong
02Slab Foundation Repair
Most common repair on post-1950s Lubbock homes
03Pier and Beam Repair
Older central Lubbock, Slaton, Post and the railroad towns
04Crawl Space Foundation Repair
Structural work under the floor
05Mudjacking and Slab Jacking
Flatwork, not house foundations
06Drainage and Grading Correction
The cheapest foundation work you will ever buy
07Foundation Crack Repair
Some cracks matter. Many do not.
08Post-Tension Cable Repair
Newer subdivisions and anything built with a PT slab
How it works
Four steps, no cost to ask
Tell us what is happening
Call, or fill out the form. Cracks, sticking doors, sloping floors, when you first noticed it, whether it is getting worse.
We route it to a local pro
Your request goes to an independent foundation repair contractor working in your part of the South Plains.
They measure before they quote
A proper look starts with a floor-elevation survey, not a sales pitch. The numbers determine what, if anything, needs doing.
You decide
Any contract, price and warranty is between you and the contractor. You are under no obligation at any point.
Worth knowing before you hire anyone in Texas. There is no state license for foundation repair contractors here — bills to create one have been introduced and have not passed. What you can verify is City of Lubbock contractor registration, general liability coverage, and the license of any Professional Engineer specifying the work. More on what to check →
Before you hire anyone
Three things you can actually verify about a Texas foundation contractor
Texas does not issue a state license for foundation repair. Legislation to create one has been filed more than once and has not passed, which means the trade is unregulated at state level and anyone here can start a foundation company tomorrow. That puts the whole verification burden on you. The good news is that three things genuinely can be checked, and checking them takes about ten minutes.
City contractor registration. The City of Lubbock will not issue a building permit to a contractor who has not registered with the building official first, and registration requires showing general liability coverage of at least $100,000 or posting a $20,000 compliance bond. Ask for the registration and confirm it with the city. A contractor who suggests skipping the permit entirely is telling you something useful about how they operate. Outside the city limits, requirements differ by jurisdiction, so ask which office issues the permit for your address.
Liability coverage, from the source. Ask for a certificate of insurance sent to you directly by the agent or carrier rather than a copy handed over by the contractor. It is a normal request and any established company handles it routinely.
The engineer's license. Under the Texas Engineering Practice Act, working out the cause of a foundation condition and specifying a repair is the practice of engineering. That requires a Professional Engineer licensed by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and that license can be looked up on the board's site. If a repair plan is being drawn up for your house, ask who is sealing it.
None of this is exotic. It is the short list of what remains checkable in a trade the state chose not to regulate, and it is the difference between hiring on evidence and hiring on a billboard.
- State license requiredNoneTexas does not license foundation repair contractors
- City of Lubbock registrationRequiredBefore any permit is issued for structural work
- Minimum coverage to register$100,000General liability, or a $20,000 compliance bond
- Who may specify a repairA licensed PEProfessional Engineer licensed by TBPELS
Where we send crews
Lubbock and the surrounding South Plains
Distances are from central Lubbock. If your town is not listed and you are in the region, call and ask.
Next step
Get your foundation looked at
Send a request and we will connect you with a local foundation repair pro who works in your area. Costs nothing to ask.
(806) 515-4403