Foundation repair, concrete repair and crawl space repair in Laguna Beach, CA

The USDA soil survey inside Laguna Beach comes back Cieneba at about 40 percent of the survey, with Soper and Alo alongside it. By texture that survey runs 60 percent clay. The weighted linear extensibility figure, which is how much the soil changes volume between wet and dry, sits at 4.54 percent, a moderate shrink swell rating. The sample inside the city runs 60 percent clay against 42 percent across Orange County, so the ground here is heavier than the county average. What is actually happening at your address is something we confirm on site, not something we read off a map.

The typical house dates to 1964, and the single biggest block of the stock, 2,487 homes, went up in the 1960s. 10,475 of those homes predate 1980, which is where we most often find footing drains that were never installed and backfill that was never compacted. 17 percent of the housing here, 1,756 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. Mortgages sit on 62 percent of the owner occupied homes in Laguna Beach. Every evaluation ends with a written estimate that describes what we found at that house.

We work addresses in ZIP codes 92651, 92656, 92677. Addresses just outside those boundaries are covered too; a city limit is a mapping line, not a service boundary.