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Service areas / Kansas City, MO

Foundation repair in Kansas City, MO

Old brick, limestone, and a century of clay soil. Kansas City homes have character, and their foundations need people who understand them.

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  • Served from our Raytown office
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  • Family-owned since 1978
1978Family-owned since
48Years in business
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MO + KSMissouri and eastern Kansas
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Kansas City housing

A city of older foundations

Walk through Brookside, Waldo, Hyde Park, Midtown, or the Northeast and you will see some of the best older housing in the region. Many of those homes sit on limestone or brick foundations laid long before modern drainage and waterproofing were standard. They were built well, but they have spent a very long time sitting in Kansas City clay.

  • Brookside
  • Waldo
  • Hyde Park
  • Midtown
  • Northeast
  • Northland
Close view of an old stone foundation wall with crumbling mortarLimestone + brick

Clay, water, freeze and thaw

Why they move

That clay swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries out. Add our freeze and thaw cycles each winter, and the soil around an older foundation is constantly moving. Mortar joints in stone and brick walls wear out, water finds its way in, and sections of the house can settle.

Warning signs

What to watch for in a Kansas City home

Cracks and crumbling mortar

Stair step cracks in brick walls or crumbling mortar in a stone foundation.

Bowing basement walls

A basement wall that bows inward or shows a long horizontal crack.

Water at the floor joint

Water seeping in where the wall meets the floor after a heavy rain.

Sticking doors upstairs

Doors that suddenly stick, or cracks running from the corners of windows.

Sunken concrete

Sunken front steps, sidewalks, or a driveway that has pulled away from the garage.

Unfinished basement with concrete block walls and exposed joists

Finishing a basement in an older home?

Lots of Kansas City homeowners want to turn an old basement into usable space. Deal with the water and the walls first. Drywall and carpet will hide a crack or a damp wall, but they will not stop it, and fixing a problem behind a finished wall costs more. A free inspection before you build is cheap insurance.

Newer homes in the Northland and other parts of the city deal with the same soil, just on a newer foundation. Settling, wet basements, and sinking concrete show up there too.

Our services

How we help Kansas City homeowners

Every repair starts with a free estimate and an honest look at what is going on.

Steel push pier brackets set under a foundation footing
Push piers + helical piers

Settling and cracked foundations

Steel push piers and helical piers reach load-bearing soil below the shifting clay to stabilize the house and, with push piers, lift it back toward its original position.

Illustration of wall anchor plates and rods
Helical tiebacks

Bowing basement walls

Helical tiebacks anchor into the soil outside and hold the wall with an inside plate and a high-strength rod.

Perforated drain pipe laid in a gravel trench
Waterproofing

Wet basements

Interior drain systems, exterior waterproofing, sump pumps, French drains, and surface drainage.

Technician injecting polyurethane foam into a concrete slab
Polyjacking + encapsulation

Sunken concrete and damp crawlspaces

Polyjacking to lift slabs, and vapor barrier encapsulation for crawlspaces.

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Read about each service, or find us close by.

Steel pier bracket installed under an excavated foundationFoundation repairPush piers, helical piers, tiebacksLearn more →Water spreading across a basement floorBasement waterproofingDrains, sump pumps, exterior workLearn more →Technician injecting polyurethane foam into a concrete slabPolyjackingLift and level settled concreteLearn more →Crawlspace sealed with a white vapor barrierCrawlspace encapsulationVapor barrier moisture controlLearn more →

Our office is just southeast of the city in Raytown. We also work in Independence, Gladstone, and the rest of our service areas.

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Kansas City, let's take a look

Pro Foundation Technology is family-owned and has served Missouri since 1978. Call for a free estimate.

Raytown office(816) 358-3300NE Kansas line(913) 383-1800Request a free estimate