Foundation Services for Waveland Park Homeowners

What Foundation and Waterproofing Challenges Affect Waveland Park?

Waveland Park drapes over the hills around its namesake golf course, and its 1920s-40s Tudors and Colonial Revivals are set into terrain with real slope. On hilly ground like this, the movement of surface water is the foundation's chief concern.

Every heavy rain sends runoff down the grades, and it collects against the uphill side of these older foundations, saturating the clay-heavy till right where the house bears down. As that soil moves downhill through the seasons, the foundations settle with it — dropping and cracking on the low side, pulling openings out of square. The aging footings under these homes simply weren't built to chase a shifting hillside.

JLB anchors them to ground that stays put. We drive helical piers down through the moving surface soil to stable, load-bearing strata, arresting the downhill settlement, and we intercept the runoff with drainage and regrading so the water driving the slope is carried away from the foundation. The house is stabilized and the hill is drained.

In a hillside neighborhood like Waveland Park, you can't stop a foundation from settling without addressing the slope feeding it. We pier for stability and manage the runoff together — keeping a Tudor level on ground that's always inching downhill.

On a Waveland Park slope the tell is a door that won't latch or a crack widening on the low side after a wet week — the house quietly following the hillside down. We read the grade and the uphill runoff during an inspection, because piering the structure without diverting the water leaves the slope working against it every spring.