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 Chandler and the surrounding Maricopa County.
A local specialist will evaluate your foundation, walk you through the findings, and send a clear estimate. No cost, no pressure.
Phoenix office
3801 E Roeser Rd #15
Phoenix, AZ 85040
Phone
(877) 360-9227Hours
Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM
Crawl Space Repair in Chandler
Chandler lies inside Maricopa County in Arizona. Census figures put the town at about 275,618 residents and 104,419 households. Detached single family houses number 74,765, and 65 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied.
Work here is served from the Phoenix office, about 20 minutes away at 12 miles. Maricopa County carries 1,189,056 detached single family homes in total, 65 percent owner occupied. That is about 6 percent of every housing unit in Maricopa County. Maricopa County holds about 4,491,987 people and 1,850,862 housing units in total. Half the housing predates 1997, and the 1990s were the busiest building years at 32,705 homes. A median home value of $423,900 and a median household income of $99,374 is what the American Community Survey records. The split is 67,461 owner occupied to 36,958 rented. Roughly 11 percent of the housing here, 11,284 homes, went up before 1980, when footing drains and grade separations were not what they are now.
Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.
What we fix
Ground under Chandler is mapped sand, with a low shrink swell rating. Soil like that tends to compress rather than swell, which is why what we find here is usually settlement rather than heave.
What this looks likeOf the housing here, 11,284 homes predate 1980, with the biggest block of it going up in the 1990s. Original drainage is usually the story on those.
What this looks likeThe typical Chandler house dates to 1997, old enough that the ground under it has been through every wet spring and dry summer since.
What this looks likeLocal conditions
Soil mapping within Chandler returns Antho at about 40 percent of the survey, with Mohall and Gilman alongside it. The texture split is 20 percent clay and 60 percent sand. The weighted linear extensibility figure, which is how much the soil changes volume between wet and dry, sits at 2.7 percent, a low shrink swell rating. Clay content is 20 percent inside the city and 12 percent countywide.
The 1990s put up more homes than any other decade, 32,705 of them, and the median year built is 1997. 11,284 of those homes predate 1980, which is where we most often find footing drains that were never installed and backfill that was never compacted. 22 percent of the housing here, 22,534 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. Of the owner occupied homes, 74 percent carry a mortgage.
Soil survey: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (SSURGO), sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov.
"Under Chandler the mapped soil is sand, rated low 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
Serape, Springfield Lakes, Cooper Commons, Downtown and Fox Crossing all sit inside the Chandler city limits, so a job in any of them is scheduled out of the Phoenix office the same way as one downtown.
Problem signs
The crew
The same company schedules the evaluation, runs the install, and answers a warranty call later.
Google reviews
Jim was awesome! Free estimate was actually free. He did the work to look at my mother’s foundation, lidar scanned the house, found the issues and presented the best solutions.
My representative Ted Ballinger was amazing. He was punctual, very informative, thorough and just overall gave an amazing experience. Dalinghaus Construction… great job finding Ted. I will be calling you if I ever need your expertise in the future and will recommend you to anyone who also might need anything. Thank you.
Thomas and JD arrived on time, they explained what they were going to do. They answered my questions. Then they did it all over again for my wife. Then they got out their equipment and worked quickly and efficiently. It was amazing to hear and see the foundation of my house actually moving back into location. We saw the cracks close up and disappear!
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Chandler is worked out of our Phoenix, AZ office. It is 12 miles from the middle of town, about 20 minutes on the road. The office is at 3801 E Roeser Rd #15, Phoenix, AZ 85040.
Also served from Phoenix
A Dalinghaus specialist evaluates your foundation in Chandler, 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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