Foundation Repair In The City of Santa Ana
Founded in 1869, the city of Santa Ana has quite a storied history while being part of the Greater Los Angeles Area and also falling inside of Orange County. Unfortunately, the city shares many of the surface soil characteristics of its neighboring cities in Orange County. The mixture of clay and a silty clay loam leads to the perfect recipe for disaster with homes and commercial structures built within the city’s limits. The blend of soils turns into expansive clay soil that expands as soon moisture is present and shrinks as it dries out. This cycle happens continuously and over time creates voids and instability in the soils beneath a home’s foundation. Santa Ana homeowners should be on the lookout for a handful of common signs and symptoms of a settling foundation caused by these expansive clay soils. After countless foundation repair projects in Santa Ana we’ve become very familiar with these signs:
