Foundation repair, concrete repair and crawl space repair in San Clemente, CA

The USDA soil survey inside San Clemente comes back Bosanko at about 60 percent of the survey, with Calleguas and Xerorthents alongside it. Broken down by texture it is 80 percent clay. Linear extensibility, the measure of how much a soil swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries, is weighted at 7.63 percent here, which USDA reads as high shrink swell potential. The sample inside the city runs 80 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.

Most of what we walk into here was built in the 1970s, 5,578 homes, around a median build year of 1982. The 12,317 homes finished before 1980 are the ones where drainage was rarely engineered and backfill was rarely compacted. 16 percent of the housing here, 3,798 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. Every evaluation ends with a written estimate that describes what we found at that house.

All of them. Bay Cliff Village, Colony Cove, Portofino, San Rafael, Sea Summit and Talega are all inside the city limits, and every address inside those limits is worked by the same crew on the same terms.

The city covers ZIP codes 92624, 92673, 92675, 92694. Addresses just outside those boundaries are covered too; a city limit is a mapping line, not a service boundary.