Doors that stick, cracks that keep growing, a floor you can feel slope? We find what's moving your house, then lift it back toward level.
Foundation raising in Vacaville, CA lifts a house or slab that has settled back toward level and puts it on firmer support. At Form & Pour Vacaville Concrete, every one of these jobs starts with finding out why it settled in the first place.
Most people call us once a door starts sticking, a crack over a window gets longer or the kitchen floor feels like it runs downhill. We're based in Vacaville and work in the cities around it, including Fairfield, Davis, Napa, Vallejo and Concord. The biggest thing that moves the price is the kind of foundation you have, because a slab house has to be lifted from piers set down into firm ground, while a raised house with a crawl space underneath can be reached and leveled from below. The schedule turns on the same thing, plus how many lift points your house needs and whether a drainage problem has to be fixed first, and your written estimate shows which of those apply to you.
When you call, I'm the one who comes out to look at your house, not a salesperson. I walk the outside, check the floors and doors, and write the estimate myself, so the person explaining the job is the same person who'll run it.
The people lifting your house work for us, not a crew brought in for the week. I run the jobs myself, so if something under your house turns out different from what we expected, you hear it from me directly and we decide the next step together.
We've been doing this since 2013, and before that I spent summers on concrete crews learning from finishers who'd done it for decades. That taught me to slow down, explain a job before anything moves, and say so plainly when something isn't settled yet.
We're licensed and insured. Raising a house means digging along your foundation and putting real force under it, so it's worth asking anyone who bids your job about both. If anything in our paperwork is unclear, ask me and I'll walk you through it.
We reply within one business day, whether you call (707) 514-3389 or send the form. I'll come out and look at your house for free, with no pressure and no obligation. Then you get a written estimate that spells out the work line by line, including what isn't part of it.
In Vacaville, the city's Building Division reviews and inspects new construction and improvements to existing structures inside city limits, and raising a house is work on an existing structure. Whether your lift needs a permit is something I confirm for your address with that office instead of guessing, and when one is needed we handle the application and set up the inspections.
The ground here is a big part of why houses settle. About 51% of the soil across Solano County is expansive clay, the kind that swells when it gets wet and shrinks as it dries, and that back and forth lifts and drops a foundation unevenly. That's where stair-step cracks in brick and block come from, along with door and window frames pulled out of square. We see the same pattern on jobs in Fairfield and Suisun City, and it's why the lifting method matters so much on clay.
House leveling across the US usually costs about $3,500 to $30,000 per job, and that's a national figure for the whole job, not our price. Where your house lands in that range mostly comes down to the foundation type I mentioned up top and how many lift points it needs. Your written estimate shows exactly what's in your number.
On clay like ours, one slab repair guide strongly prefers foam, because it adds almost no weight under the slab. Mudjacking pumps a heavy slurry underneath, and the same guide warns that on soil that couldn't hold the slab up to begin with, that extra weight can make it settle again. Neither method fixes the reason the slab sank, so the guide says to fix drainage before or alongside the lift.
One cost guide puts shimming a raised house, the kind with a crawl space, at 1 to 3 days, and lifting a slab house on piers at 3 to 7 days depending on how many piers go in. So if you're on a slab, plan for the longer job. You can usually stay home the whole time, though slab work is noisy and means digging around the outside walls.
Watch for change, because whether the house is still moving matters more than whether it's a little off. A common industry threshold calls a floor out of level at about 1 inch of drop over 20 feet, but most older homes are somewhat out of level and work fine. Leveling stops existing cracks from getting worse and can partly close some, though patching them is the separate job I mentioned earlier.
Yes, California's contractor licensing board has a classification for pile driving and pressure foundation jacking. It covers driving piles and injecting concrete or mortar into foundations to stabilize them, so it's fair to ask anyone bidding your job what license covers the lifting.
Know whether your house sits on a slab or over a crawl space, and note where the cracks and sticking doors are. The most useful thing you can tell me is whether those are still changing, like a crack that's gotten longer or a door that closed fine last year. When you're ready, call (707) 514-3389 or send the form.
