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Foundation, basement and crawl space referral service

Find out what is wrong before you hire anyone. Then get one foundation company for your city.

A crack is not always a foundation problem, and a foundation problem is not always a five-figure one. The company that diagnoses the problem often sells the repair. So we start with tools and guides that help you get an independent read, and only then pass your request to one company that works your city.

A wall visibly moving, a floor dropping, or water coming in near the electrical panel: get everyone out of the room, call 911 if the structure feels unsafe, and use the form with Emergency ticked. Send an emergency request
  • Diagnosis comes before the sales callThe crack tool, the engineer question and the repair cost tool run in your browser and ask for no phone number. Use them first and you will know what to ask when a company calls.
  • One company gets your requestNo list of bidders. The company that receives your request is the one that calls, and the consent line on the form says so before you send anything.
  • Sources and dates on every pageEach rule, fee and figure links to the statute, standard or government page it came from, with the date we last checked. A fact we cannot source is left out.

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Free to use. Three short steps: what you are seeing, the place, then how to reach you.

What are you seeing?
Something else · all 11 services

We check whether a company serves your ZIP before we ask for your phone number.

Free to use. The foundation company that receives your request pays us; you never do. How it works

11foundation, basement, crawl space and radon jobs explained, with what to check first
3free tools that work without your contact details
12guides on cracks, engineers, permits, codes and licensing
101city pages, each written from that city's own records
Services

The 11 jobs we cover, and what each one involves

Each service page says what the work is, who is allowed to do it, whether it needs a permit, what the cost evidence looks like and when an engineer should look first. Where we found no source for a number, the page says so instead of guessing.

All 11 services
Foundation cracksBasement waterproofingCrawl space encapsulationFoundation repairBowing wallsFoundation inspection
How it works

How a request becomes a phone call

Three steps, with nothing for sale at the end. We are a referral service: we do not do the work, hold a contractor license or set prices. The foundation company that receives your request pays us, and you never do.

How we are paid
  1. 01

    Pick what you are seeing and add your ZIP code

    One tap for cracks, water, a crawl space, a sloping floor, a bowing wall or an inspection before a sale, then five digits. If no company we send to serves your ZIP, the form says so before it asks for a phone number.

  2. 02

    Say how to reach you

    Name, phone and email go on the last step, with a line beside each saying why we ask. Only the company that gets your request is meant to call the number you give.

  3. 03

    One company calls

    It names its own price and you can say no. If the problem is structural, ask for an engineer's written report that the company did not write, before you agree to anything.

Tools

Three tools you can use before you give a phone number

The crack identifier, the engineer question and the repair cost tool each answer something people ask before they ask for a quote. They run in your browser and collect nothing.

Crack identifier

Pick the direction, the change and the signs. See what the pattern can mean, what to do first and when an engineer comes before a contractor.

Three wall cracks: hairline, stair-step and horizontalLook at the three walls side by side. A hairline vertical crack is the least worrying, a stair-step crack follows the mortar joints of a block wall, and a long horizontal crack across the wall can mean soil pressure pushing it in.Three wall cracks: hairline, stair-step and horizontalLook at the three walls side by side. A hairline vertical crack is the least worrying, a stair-step crack follows the mortar joints of a block wall, and a long horizontal crack across the wall can mean soil pressure pushing it in.HairlineStair-stepHorizontalOften cosmeticFollows jointsWall pressure
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Do I need an engineer first?

Answer two questions to see whether an engineer, a second opinion or a drainage fix should come before a foundation repair quote.

Decision boxes: crack or tilt leads to an engineer before any repair quotesLook at the flow from the top box. A hairline crack that is not changing can simply be watched; anything that grows, tilts or leaks goes to a structural engineer first, and repair quotes come only after the engineer reports.Decision boxes: crack or tilt leads to an engineer before any repair quotesLook at the flow from the top box. A hairline crack that is not changing can simply be watched; anything that grows, tilts or leaks goes to a structural engineer first, and repair quotes come only after the engineer reports.Crack or tilt seenStable: watch itGrowing: engineerThen get quotesReport first, quotes second
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Cost by repair type

Pick a repair type to see who may do it, the permit position, a labeled estimated range and the wage and fee evidence we can source.

Five repair icons in a row, from crack injection up to piersLook at the five repairs from left to right in rough order of cost: crack injection, slab leveling, wall straps, drain tile and piers. The bars under each show the typical size of the job, not an exact price.Five repair icons in a row, from crack injection up to piersLook at the five repairs from left to right in rough order of cost: crack injection, slab leveling, wall straps, drain tile and piers. The bars under each show the typical size of the job, not an exact price.CrackSlabWallDrainPiersSmall jobs on the left, big jobs on the right
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Coverage

Your city, with its own page

Each city page names the permit office we could find, the housing age from the census, the county radon zone and what we could confirm about local permits, and says plainly what we could not. Michigan is live now. Other states are opening.

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Guides

Guides written for the houses in your state

The guides cover crack types, why an engineer comes first, radon, building codes, permits, crawl spaces, sump pumps, contractor licenses and what drives a repair price. Each lists its sources and its date.

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Foundation companies: receive these requests

If you run a foundation, waterproofing or crawl space company in a place we cover and want homeowner requests for the work you do, read the partner page.

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