Which direction is the house actually moving?
Around Champaign, a foundation can be pushed upward by a swelling clay subsoil during a wet stretch and drop again once that same clay dries out, so a fix needs to identify which direction the movement is going before it prescribes a solution.
What a full repair scope covers
- Existing conditions and likely cause
- Preparation and protection
- Materials, compatibility, and installation details
- Permits, testing, cleanup, and restoration
- Exclusions, warranty terms, and change-order process
Champaign's soil, in plain terms
Champaign County's black prairie soil is a shallow layer of dark topsoil over a yellow clay subsoil, historically wet enough to need its own drain-tile industry. That clay's seasonal expansion and contraction is the mechanism behind most settlement and heaving cases seen across the Champaign-Urbana area.