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The Best Foundation Repair Companies, City by City

Every foundation repair company looks the same from the outside - five stars, free inspection, lifetime warranty. Searching gets you a page of ads and no way to tell one from another. We ranked the best 25 in each city on the same four things: years in business, review volume, rating and a website we could verify.

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Companies ranked
196
up to 25 per city, from 1,359 reviewed
Cities
8
Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado
Median years in business
34
across the 196 ranked
Twenty years or more
125
of the 196 ranked
Google reviews behind them
65,953
combined
Average Google rating
4.77
which is why stars cannot rank them
Coverage

Start with your city

Each city is ranked on its own. Soil, repair method and price do not travel - what works on Houston gumbo is the wrong answer in San Antonio limestone, and a Kansas City basement wall fails in a way a Texas slab never does.

TX
Dallas - Fort Worth

The largest market we cover, and the most steel-pier-dominated.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
254
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TX
Houston

Gumbo clay, subsidence and drainage - a different problem from the rest of Texas.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
220
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TX
San Antonio

Limestone west of the escarpment, clay east of it. Two markets in one area.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
271
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TX
Austin

Blackland clay east of I-35, limestone hills west. Settlement on fill is the local story.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
277
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MO–KS
Kansas City

A basement market either side of the state line. Walls bow inward here rather than slabs settling.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
49
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CO
Denver

The one market where the ground goes up. Bentonite lifts houses here instead of dropping them.

Ranked
21
Reviewed
105
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MO–IL
St. Louis

Clay over limestone karst. The one metro where the ground can be missing rather than merely moving.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
79
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IL
Chicago

The country’s biggest basement market. Water pressure against the wall, not a house sinking.

Ranked
25
Reviewed
104
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A city goes live only once every foundation company in it has been collected and checked, so they arrive one at a time. We would rather cover eight cities properly than fifty badly.

Before you call

What to know before you call a foundation repair company

Four short guides on the things homeowners get caught out by. Each one is built from the same 1,359-company review as the rankings, and each holds true in every city we cover.

What foundation repair actually costs
Per-pier pricing, why two quotes on the same house can differ by $9,000, and the line items that get added after you sign.
Read the guide →
Pressed concrete, steel, bell-bottom, helical
Four ways to hold up a house. Which one belongs under yours depends on what your ground is made of, not on what the contractor sells.
Compare the methods →
How to read a foundation warranty
Lifetime, limited, transferable, and the exclusions that quietly decide whether you will ever collect on it.
Read the guide →
Nine things that should end the conversation
Same-day pressure, a price with no pier count, a warranty nobody will put in writing - and what to say instead.
See the red flags →
The money

The rankings are not for sale

Position here is earned by four inputs with fixed weights, applied identically to every company. No contractor can pay to move up, push a competitor down, or buy its way off the page. We may earn a referral fee when someone requests quotes through the form on a city page - that fee is the same whichever company you pick. If this site ever carries advertising or a featured placement, it will be labeled as advertising, sit outside the ranked lists, and change the order of nothing.

1,359 companies reviewed

464 cleared the bar and the best 25 in each city are ranked. The rest were excluded for having no working website, too few reviews to judge, being outside the area, being a lead-generation network, or not being a foundation company at all.

Four ranking inputs

Years in business, review volume, rating, and whether there is a website to verify against. Fixed weights, applied identically to every company. See the weights.

Corrections welcome

If you run a company listed here and something is wrong, point us at the page on your own site that shows the correct information and it goes in on the next update. We'll also remove a listing on request, no reason needed.