South of Grand Foundation Help — Local & Reliable

What Foundation and Waterproofing Challenges Affect South of Grand?

South of Grand is Des Moines' premier address, a district of grand estates on expansive, wooded lots — and the very topography that makes it beautiful is what tests its foundations. These homes sit on hilly ground where water has both the volume and the slope to do real damage.

Heavy rain sheets off the large lots and concentrates against the aging footings of these estates, and the clay-rich Lobe till it saturates holds that moisture against the foundation long after. Over decades the runoff undermines and settles the footings unevenly, while hydrostatic pressure loads the walls — a slow threat to some of the most valuable historic architecture in the city.

JLB protects that equity with drainage and stabilization together. We install professional-grade interior drainage and sump systems to take control of the water the slopes deliver, and we stabilize or pier footings that the runoff has settled, bringing the foundation back to a stable, level bearing. The scale of the fix is matched to the scale of the home.

For a South of Grand estate, foundation work is preservation of a significant asset. We engineer the drainage and the structural stabilization to the value at stake — keeping grand homes level and dry on ground that sheds water hard.

For a South of Grand estate the drainage comes first, because the runoff off these large sloped lots is what's undermining the footings in the first place. We take control of the water before stabilizing the structure, since piering a foundation while the hillside keeps sending water at it only treats the symptom of a slope left unmanaged.