A Bowling Green foundation company that reads the ground before it prices the house
Most of the firms that advertise foundation repair here dispatch from Middle Tennessee or further north. We work from Bowling Green, on the same red clay and the same cave-riddled limestone as the houses we fix.
Bowling Green Foundation Works books, plans and manages foundation, crawl space and basement repair for homeowners in Bowling Green, the rest of Warren County and the county seats around it, from Glasgow and Scottsville to Franklin, Russellville, Brownsville and Morgantown. The crews who do the digging, piering, bracing and waterproofing carry general liability and workers' compensation insurance, and we can send the certificate before anyone parks in your driveway.
We started with a simple observation. The ground under this city is unusual even by Kentucky standards: a sinkhole plain where the city sends its own stormwater underground through drainage wells, where the city geologist puts cave passages within 15 to 20 feet of the surface along parts of Russellville Road and Nashville Road, and where the red clay on top swells in a wet spring and pulls away from footings by late summer. A crack in a Bowling Green basement can come from any of those. Pricing the repair before working out which one is how homeowners end up paying twice.
Half the houses in town were built in 1991 or earlier, and more than a third before 1980. Those homes have been through decades of shrink-and-swell seasons, and the newer ones are reaching the age when settling first shows. Both kinds keep us busy.
How we hold ourselves to it
The ground comes first
Every inspection starts outside: where the downspouts empty, which way the yard falls, whether there is a depression or a drain well nearby, how the clay looks at the foundation line. Then the crawl space or basement, and only then a recommendation.
Numbers on paper
Floor elevations taken with a level, crack widths with a gauge, wall lean measured top to bottom. They go into a written plan with the price, so you can compare us against anyone else line by line, and so a later visit can tell whether anything moved.
Fix the reason, then the symptom
Sealing a crack while the water that opened it still pours off the roof is wasted money. When drainage is part of the cause, the plan says so, and we will tell you when drainage alone might be enough.
The paperwork stays visible
Structural repairs inside the city limits go through the City of Bowling Green's Building Division, and nothing gets dug before Kentucky 811 has marked the lines. You see the permit and the locate ticket. Outside the city, we work with the building office where your house sits.
Somebody always picks up
Calls come in at any hour, and a person calls back to book the visit. Water coming in or a wall that moved overnight goes to the top of the list.