Most homeowners don't come to us already knowing which service they need — they know something's wrong and want to know what to do about it. Here's a rough guide to matching what you're seeing to the right fix. A free evaluation is always the way to confirm it, but this is a reasonable starting point.
Cracks in interior or exterior walls, especially paired with sloping floors or sticking doors. This combination usually points to foundation repair and underpinning, or in Florida specifically, sinkhole repair — cracks like this are frequently a sign of sinkhole activity in the limestone bedrock below.
A sunken or uneven slab, walkway, or driveway. This is a job for concrete lifting and slab stabilization, which raises and levels the concrete without a full replacement.
A seawall that's cracking, bowing, or losing soil behind it. That falls under seawall erosion repair — caught early, most seawall damage is a repair, not a replacement.
Sagging floors, musty smells, or visible moisture in a crawl space. Crawl space repair addresses the support structure and the moisture that's usually causing it.
Voids or empty spaces that have opened up beneath a slab or foundation. Void filling injects structural foam to fill the space and support the concrete above it before settling spreads.
A structure that needs deeper support than surface repairs can provide — new construction on unstable soil, or a foundation with more serious settlement. Helical piles drive deep support down to load-bearing soil.
Soil around the property that's visibly unstable — shifting, eroding, or prone to sinkhole activity. Soil stabilization treats the ground itself before it causes foundation damage.
When You're Not Sure
If what you're seeing doesn't map cleanly to one of the above, or you're seeing more than one at once, that's normal — a lot of these issues overlap, and the actual cause isn't always obvious from the symptom. That's exactly what the free evaluation is for.
Frequently asked questions
What if I need more than one of these services?
It's common for one underlying problem — soil movement, for example — to show up as more than one symptom. An evaluation will identify the actual cause so the right combination of services gets recommended, rather than treating each symptom separately.
Is the evaluation really free?
Yes. Solid Foundations provides free, no-obligation evaluations across Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.