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Is foundation repair worth it? — Answered for Houston, TX

It depends on what you are optimizing for, and there are three different answers.

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A deep pier excavation against a house slab edge showing a stack of driven concrete cylinders down the hole and a hydraulic ram seated on the top cylinder.

If you are staying, the question is whether the movement is progressing. If you are selling, the question is what the buyer’s lender will want. If you are deciding whether to buy, the question is what it costs to make it a known quantity.

What movement here usually is

Ground running to 51% clay, taking 5.1 inches in an ordinary two-year storm, moves every year whether or not a house is in trouble. That is the reason the staying-put answer turns on progression rather than on presence: some movement is the normal condition here, and telling normal from progressive needs two readings rather than one.

Three different people asking one question

For an owner who intends to stay, everything reduces to a single question: is the house still moving? Work on a house that has stopped is decorating with piers. Work on a house still in motion buys the structure back. A measurement repeated over time is what tells those cases apart, at a small fraction of the cost of what it might authorize.

If you are letting the house out, the arithmetic changes shape, and that is the ordinary case here rather than a side note. Owner-occupancy accounts for 384,672 of the 1,023,112 housing units counted in this city, which puts the owner-occupied house in the minority and leaves a great deal of this housing working as somebody’s asset. For an owner in that position the question is what the property must do for a tenant now and for a buyer later. A documented repair answers both. An undocumented crack answers neither.

If you are buying, a priced repair is something you can trade against at the table. An unpriced doubt is not, because no seller concedes against a figure nobody has produced. A survey inside the option period is what turns the second into the first, and against a median home value of 253,400 USD it is usually the best-spent few hundred dollars in the transaction. The version that never pays is a repair bought ahead of any readings at all. That is not a repair. It is somebody’s average, sold by the pier.

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