Best here is a published score, not an opinion: years in business, review volume, rating and a verifiable website, weighted the same for every company. Ranked from 278 whose own websites we read - warranty, transferability, pier method and financing, side by side. The full table of all 47 that met the bar is below the shortlist.
Fixed weights, applied identically to every company: years in business, review volume, rating, verifiable website. A filled chip means the company states it publicly. No chip means it doesn't say - not that the answer is no.
Bids on the same house routinely differ by a factor of two, and the cheapest is not reliably the worst or the best. The only way to know what your repair should cost is to have more than one company look at it.
Or just call them directly - these are the numbers each company publishes itself. We don't insert tracking numbers, and we aren't paid when you call.
Search by name, town or pier method, or filter to only the companies that publish what matters to you. An em dash means the company doesn't state it - not that the answer is no.
| Company | Rating | Reviews | Years | Warranty | Transfers | Pier methods | Financing | Engineer | Phone |
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Every company listed here serves inside the outlined area. Most travel further for a large job - the boundary is where they routinely quote, not a hard limit. Where a town shows a number, that is how many listed companies are based there; plenty of towns are covered without having a foundation company headquartered in them.
Austin is split down the middle by I-35, and it is close to a literal soil boundary. East of the highway is deep Blackland Prairie clay - the same highly expansive soil that gives Dallas its problems. West of it, toward Lakeway, Bee Cave and Dripping Springs, houses sit on thin caliche and soil over Edwards limestone.
The practical consequence: an east-side house in Del Valle or Manor has a different problem from a west-side house in Westlake, and they need different repairs. Piers on the west side often reach rock within a few feet. On the east side they may need to go far deeper to find stable material below the active zone.
Austin's other distinctive issue is new construction on engineered fill. The area has been among the fastest-growing in the country for two decades, and a great deal of housing in Round Rock, Pflugerville, Hutto, Kyle and Buda sits on graded and filled lots. Fill that was not properly compacted settles, and it does so within the first five to ten years - which is why this area sees foundation complaints on houses far newer than the Texas average.
That also makes the builder warranty question worth asking first. On a house under ten years old, structural coverage may still apply, and a foundation company that tells you to check before selling you piers is telling you something useful about how they operate.
Austin splits along I-35, and so does its contractor base. 75% of the 16 companies naming a method offer steel and 44% offer pressed concrete - a wider overlap than elsewhere, because a contractor working both the clay east of the interstate and the limestone west of it needs more than one technique.
Share of the 47 listed companies stating each item on their own website. 12 of the 33 with a known founding year have been in business twenty years or more. Median review count is 32.
Substantially. East of I-35 is deep expansive Blackland clay; west is thin soil over limestone. Pier depth and sometimes method differ between them. The four methods compared →
Very common around Austin. A lot of newer housing in Round Rock, Pflugerville, Hutto, Kyle and Buda sits on graded fill, and poorly compacted fill settles within the first five to ten years.
Yes, if the house is under about ten years old. Structural coverage may still apply, and it is worth confirming before paying for piers. How to read a foundation warranty →
Perimeter jobs commonly run into five figures, with west-side limestone work often cheaper per pier because piers reach rock sooner. What repair actually costs →
We collected every foundation repair company operating in Austin from public listings - 278 of them - then opened each company's own website and read it. Seven attributes were recorded, and only what the company states publicly. Nothing here is inferred, estimated, or paid for.
231 were excluded: no working website to verify against, too few reviews to judge fairly, based outside the area, running a network of city-named microsites, or not a foundation company at all - foundation searches surface a lot of roofers and handymen by the second page of results.
The full method, including the ranking weights and the disqualifier list →