Timber Creek Foundation & Drainage Services

What Foundation and Waterproofing Challenges Affect Timber Creek?

Timber Creek winds through a rolling, wooded landscape, and its custom homes on larger lots are set into terrain that's anything but flat. That varied topography is the source of the subdivision's foundation challenges — on ground this uneven, water and soil are always in motion.

Rain running off the slopes concentrates against the downhill side of a foundation, saturating the expansive clay right where the load is heaviest. Through the region's extreme seasonal moisture swings — wet springs, dry late summers — those hillsides shift, and foundations shift with them. The settlement Timber Creek owners see tends to follow the grade, worst on the sloped and low-lying portions of a lot.

JLB stabilizes these hillside homes by anchoring them to ground that isn't migrating. We pier settled foundations down to stable strata below the shifting surface clay, and we intercept the slope runoff with drainage and regrading so the water lubricating the hillside is carried clear of the house. The house is tied down and the terrain is drained.

On rolling, wooded lots, the land's movement becomes the foundation's problem unless it's addressed directly. In Timber Creek we pier for the slope and manage the runoff feeding it — keeping custom homes level on ground that wants to shift beneath them.

On a Timber Creek slope the settlement tends to concentrate on the low and sloped portions of a lot, so a crack on the downhill side is the one to watch. We read the grade and the runoff during an inspection, since piering the structure without diverting the water still leaves the hillside working against the foundation every wet season.