Every rule we apply, written down. If you run a company listed here and think something is wrong, the correction process is at the bottom and we would rather hear from you than stay wrong.
We collect every foundation repair company operating in a city from public business listings, then open each company's own website and read it. Seven facts get recorded for every company, and the same seven for all of them:
Nothing is inferred, estimated, generated or bought. Where a company does not publish one of the seven, the listing says so rather than guessing. Across all four cities, 1,022 companies were reviewed, 333 met the bar, and the best 25 in each city are ranked.
| City | Reviewed | Met the bar | Ranked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas - Fort Worth | 254 | 134 | 25 |
| Houston | 219 | 99 | 25 |
| San Antonio | 271 | 53 | 25 |
| Austin | 278 | 47 | 25 |
| Total | 1,022 | 333 | 100 |
Every ranked company carries the same seven: business name, street address, phone, website, Google review count, Google rating and years in business. Where a company publishes no street address the listing says so rather than showing its town as if it were one, and where neither the company's site nor its state registration gives a founding year, the figure is marked unverified. Nothing is inferred to fill a gap.
| Reason | Why |
|---|---|
| No working website | Nothing to verify. We won't publish claims we can't check against a source. |
| Website is only a booking widget | A scheduling page on someone else's platform is not a company website. There is nothing on it to read. |
| Too few reviews | Too little signal to rank fairly, in either direction. |
| Outside the area | Checked on area code, city and the address on their own site - together, not separately. |
| Lead-generation network | One operator running dozens of city-named microsites with identical content. That is one business, not thirty. |
| Duplicate listing | One company often holds several map listings with different tracking numbers. We merge them on domain. |
| Not a foundation company | HVAC firms, roofers, handymen and landscapers surface in these searches by the second page. They're removed. |
Four inputs, fixed weights, applied identically to every company:
| Input | Weight | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Years in business | 30 | The heaviest input, and only counted where we found a figure. 222 of 333 companies have one. |
| Review volume | 25 | Log-scaled, so a 3,000-review firm doesn't bury a 300-review one. |
| Google rating | 20 | Deliberately the smallest. See below. |
| Has a working website | 15 | Flat. |
Rating is the smallest lever on purpose. The average across all four cities is 4.77, and 79% of companies sit between 4.7 and 5.0. Ranking on stars would order the site almost at random and tell you nothing. That is why rating is one input of four rather than the whole ranking.
Requesting quotes through the form on a city page connects you with Networx, a third-party matching service, and we may be paid a referral fee. That fee is identical whichever company you end up choosing, and it plays no part in how any listing is ranked.
Ranking position is not for sale. Order is decided by the four weighted inputs above and nothing else. No contractor can pay to move up, to push a competitor down, or to be removed against our judgment.
That is a narrower promise than "we take no money from anyone," and it is deliberate. This site may carry advertising, or offer contractors a featured placement, at some point. If it does, anything paid for will be labeled as advertising where it appears, will sit outside the ranked lists rather than inside them, and will not change the order of a single row. A reader should never have to wonder whether a position was earned or bought - which is exactly why the promise is about the ranking rather than about our revenue.
If you run a company listed here and something is wrong - a phone number, an address, a founding year - tell us and we'll fix it. Point us at the page on your own site that shows the correct information and it goes in on the next update; we treat your own site as the source of record, because that is where every value here came from.
We'll also remove a listing on request from the business owner, no reason needed and nothing asked in return.