If your home sits on a raised foundation, there is a crawl space under your floors, a low area between the ground and the framing where wood posts, concrete piers, and girder beams carry the weight of the house. Serving Bakersfield and the surrounding Kern County.
A local specialist will evaluate your foundation, walk you through the findings, and send a clear estimate. No cost, no pressure.
Westlake Village office
2945 Townsgate Rd STE 200
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Phone
(877) 360-9227Hours
Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM
Crawl Space Repair in Bakersfield
Bakersfield sits in Kern County, California. Roughly 124,744 households sit here, home to about 404,321 people. Owners occupy 60 percent of the housing here, and 93,618 homes are detached single family.
The crew that covers Bakersfield works out of our Westlake Village office, 84 miles away, about 105 minutes on the road. Countywide, Kern County holds 219,541 detached single family homes and runs 60 percent owner occupied. That is about 41 percent of every housing unit in Kern County. Kern County as a whole is about 910,433 people and 304,481 housing units. Building peaked in the 2000s at 28,798 homes, which is why the median year built sits at 1989. The survey reports a median home value of $320,600 and a median household income of $73,827. 75,147 of those homes are lived in by their owners and 49,597 are rented. 47,673 of those homes were finished before 1980, 38 percent of everything standing.
Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.
What we fix
Ground under Bakersfield is mapped sand, with a moderate shrink swell rating. That is soil that pushes when it is wet and pulls away when it dries.
What this looks like47,673 homes in Bakersfield were finished before 1980, back when a footing drain was optional and backfill was rarely compacted.
What this looks likeThe typical Bakersfield house dates to 1989, old enough that the ground under it has been through every wet spring and dry summer since.
What this looks likeLocal conditions
The USDA soil survey inside Bakersfield comes back Kimberlina across about 100 percent of the survey. Broken down by texture it is 100 percent sand. Weighted linear extensibility runs 4.5 percent, which is the figure USDA turns into a moderate shrink swell rating.
Most of what we walk into here was built in the 2000s, 28,798 homes, around a median build year of 1989. 47,673 of those homes predate 1980, which is where we most often find footing drains that were never installed and backfill that was never compacted. 73 percent of owner occupied homes here carry a mortgage, which is usually why a lender or an appraiser is the first to ask about a crack.
Soil survey: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (SSURGO), sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov.
"Under Bakersfield the mapped soil is sand, rated moderate for shrink swell. Crawl space repair here is not generic. It has to match what the ground is doing."
Our approach
When that system weakens, you feel it upstairs: floors that sag or bounce, doors that stop latching, a musty smell that never quite airs out. The cause is almost always one of two things. Moisture gets in through poor drainage or grading and rots the wood supports, or the clay soil under the piers moves, because clay acts like a sponge, swelling when wet and shrinking when dry, and the supports ride that movement until they lean or sink.
Dalinghaus Foundation Repair's crawl space repair solutions address the whole system, not just the symptom. Depending on what the evaluation finds, that can mean replacing rotted posts and pads, installing steel crawl space jacks to lift and level sagging girders, repairing stem walls, correcting the drainage that let water in, improving ventilation, adding root barriers, or seismic retrofitting that ties the structure to its foundation. The work happens inside the crawl space, so most repairs cause little disruption to your household, and many are finished quickly once the plan is set.
It starts with a free evaluation: a specialist enters the crawl space, documents the supports and moisture conditions, measures your floor elevations, and gives you the findings in writing whether or not you hire us. Since brothers Brian and Brad Dalinghaus founded the company in 2011, we have completed more than 2,000 projects across California, Arizona, and Nevada, and crawl space repair has been core work the entire time. If your crawl space shows these warning signs, schedule your free evaluation.
What we install
Where we work
Baker Street, City in the Hills, Lakeview, Mountain Meadows and Oakridge are all city addresses, which means the same crew, the same schedule and the same free evaluation as anywhere else in town.
Problem signs
The crew
The same company schedules the evaluation, runs the install, and answers a warranty call later.
Google reviews
No complaints. Jason was very thorough in his assessment of my foundation dilemma and shared with me different solutions. He has been very patient as I weigh my decisions.
Phil is an EXCELLENT project manager. He did a fantastic job managing the major foundation repairs project on my house. He is very hardworking, smart, experienced and HONEST. My neighbors had used Dalinghaus for their foundation repairs and highly recommended Phil as the project manager and I certainly recommend him as well. Thank you Phil and Dalinghaus for the great work, your dedication and professionalism. Nikki
I rarely leave reviews for anyone. Maybe one or two a year. But I am having earthquake bolt and braces added to my home to stabilize the house on the foundation just incase a good-size quake happens. Every single person I have worked with at Dalinghaus has been absolutely great to work with....friendly, knowledgeable, hard working, and efficient. It has been great working with them and in getting this job done to give me peace of mind in the event of a quake.
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Bakersfield is worked out of our Westlake Village, CA office. It is 84 miles from the middle of town, about 105 minutes on the road. The office is at 2945 Townsgate Rd STE 200, Westlake Village, CA 91361.
Also served from Westlake Village
A Dalinghaus specialist evaluates your foundation in Bakersfield, takes floor elevation measurements, walks you through what they found, and sends a clear itemized repair estimate. No pressure.
A straightforward path from free evaluation to completed repairs.
A specialist walks the structure, takes floor elevation measurements, and explains the failure mode.
Method, scope, and pricing, in writing. Warranty terms for your specific repair are spelled out in the estimate.
A Dalinghaus crew completes the installation with the site left cleaner than we found it.
Every home is different, so every estimate is written for the home in front of us. A free on site evaluation gives you a written estimate that reflects your specific scope, access, and conditions.
Crawl Space Repair pricing varies with depth, load, access, and soil. Typical residential jobs are estimated during the free on-site evaluation, and the written estimate spells out the method, scope and price. If site conditions change the work, the change is written and signed before it goes ahead.
If a home has purely cosmetic cracks with no structural movement, no door or window racking, and no floor slope, we will say so during the evaluation and recommend you wait or address the underlying cause first. If we cannot fix it right, we will not sell you a fix.
Dalinghaus Foundation Repair is locally owned and operated, with crews dedicated exclusively to foundation, concrete, and crawl space work across California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Foundation repair, concrete leveling, and crawl space repair are our entire focus. Not a sideline.
More than 2,000 projects on the clay and desert soils of California, Arizona, and Nevada since 2011.
CSLB License #983851 in California, ROC #330307 in Arizona, and License #0089738 in Nevada. Look us up with the state before we ever set foot on your property.
Warranty terms come in writing with every proposal, and the terms that apply to your job are stated in that job's paperwork. Ask your project specialist during the free evaluation.
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