Foundation problems in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada almost always start with the soil. Serving Scottsdale 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
Foundation Repair in Scottsdale
Scottsdale is a Maricopa County town in Arizona. The population is about 240,537, spread across roughly 115,826 households. Of the occupied homes, 67 percent are owner occupied; 73,006 are detached single family.
Jobs run out of the Phoenix office, 21 miles up the road and about 35 minutes out. Maricopa County carries 1,189,056 detached single family homes in total, 65 percent owner occupied. This town accounts for about 6 percent of the county's housing. The county around it counts about 4,491,987 residents across 1,850,862 housing units. 35,586 homes went up in the 1990s, more than in any other decade, and the median build year is 1990. The Census puts Scottsdale at a median home value of $651,800 and a median household income of $104,197. Owners hold 77,574 of the occupied homes, renters the other 38,252. Homes built before 1980 make up 36 percent of the stock, 41,406 in all.
Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.
What we fix
The USDA survey under Scottsdale reads rock and rates its shrink swell potential low. Ground that does not swell much can still move: it settles, and it moves fastest where water is allowed to collect against a footing.
What this looks likeOf the housing here, 41,406 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 Scottsdale house dates to 1990, old enough that the ground under it has been through every wet spring and dry summer since.
What this looks likeLocal conditions
The mapped soil in Scottsdale is Dixaleta at about 40 percent of the survey, with Momoli and Nickel alongside it. The texture split is 20 percent sand. The weighted linear extensibility figure, which is how much the soil changes volume between wet and dry, sits at 1.5 percent, a low shrink swell rating.
The 1990s put up more homes than any other decade, 35,586 of them, and the median year built is 1990. Pre 1980 construction accounts for 41,406 homes here, and that is the group where original drainage is usually the story. 34 percent of the housing here, 39,658 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. 62 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 Scottsdale the mapped soil is rock, rated low for shrink swell. Foundation repair here is not generic. It has to match what the ground is doing."
Our approach
Clay soil acts like a sponge under your house: it swells when it rains and shrinks through the dry months, and your foundation rides that movement year after year. Eventually the signs show up where you live, doors that stick, floors that slope, cracks that climb a wall in a stair step pattern. Dalinghaus Foundation Repair has repaired more than 2,000 foundations since brothers Brian and Brad Dalinghaus founded the company in 2011.
Every repair starts the same way: we measure. A floor elevation survey maps how your home sits before anyone recommends anything, so the fix matches the actual problem instead of a guess. When piers are the answer, we install galvanized steel helical or push piers and log the torque and depth on every one.
No band-aids, no pressure, and no work you do not need. That is what Never Settle means to us.
What we install
Where we work
Inside the city boundary you will find McCormick Ranch, DC Ranch, Desert Mountain, McDowell Mountain Ranch and Grayhawk, and every one of them is covered by the Phoenix crew on the same terms.
Problem signs
The crew
The same company schedules the evaluation, runs the install, and answers a warranty call later.
Google reviews
Jim came out to do the inspection and was very professional, thorough and answered all my questions. Explained the two options, how long it would take and what it would take to do either one. Very satisfied with the inspection.
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.
Ted Ballinger with Dalinghaus Construction came out to my home and did a great job explaining the process and showing where the trouble spots were in my home. Great job Dalinhaus and special thanks to Ted for a job well done.
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Scottsdale is worked out of our Phoenix, AZ office. It is 21 miles from the middle of town, about 35 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 Scottsdale, 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.
Foundation 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.
Most foundation problems show early signs. This guide shows you what to look for, what can cause it, and how a lasting repair works, before you call anyone.
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