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 254 whose own websites we read - warranty, transferability, pier method and financing, side by side. The full table of all 134 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.
Dallas–Fort Worth sits on Blackland Prairie clay - among the most expansive soil in North America. Its plasticity index runs high enough that a single wet-to-dry cycle can move the ground several inches vertically. A slab does not crack because the house was built badly; it cracks because one corner of the lot moved and the other did not.
What makes DFW distinctive is the severity of its wet-dry swing. Long droughts followed by heavy rain are the worst possible pattern for expansive clay, and the area gets them reliably. Foundation companies here are busiest in late summer, after the soil has shrunk away from the perimeter beam and the house has settled into the gap.
The area also splits by era. East Dallas, Oak Cliff and older Fort Worth neighborhoods are largely pier-and-beam, where the repair is shimming or replacing individual piers under a crawl space. The northern suburbs - Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen - are almost entirely post-1980 slab-on-grade, where the repair means driving piers to bedrock and lifting the slab. These are different jobs with different price ranges, and a contractor who only does one should say so.
Trees matter more here than most people expect. A mature live oak or elm within fifteen feet of a foundation can pull enough moisture out of Blackland clay in a dry summer to drop that corner measurably. Root barriers are a legitimate part of the repair conversation here, not an upsell.
Dallas–Fort Worth is a steel-pier market. Of the 58 companies here that name a method, 91% install steel piers - the highest share of any city we cover. Pressed concrete appears on 33% and bell-bottom on 21%. Blackland clay runs deep here, and steel driven to refusal is the answer most local contractors have settled on.
Share of the 134 listed companies stating each item on their own website. 42 of the 87 with a known founding year have been in business twenty years or more. Median review count is 51.
Foundation work is priced per pier, and reported pressed-concrete pricing runs from about $700 to $1,800 with steel higher, so a typical perimeter job lands in the low-to-mid five figures. Bids on the same house routinely differ by thousands, which is the single best argument for getting three. What repair actually costs →
Not always, but it changes the dynamic. An engineer's report is written by someone who isn't selling the repair, and it gives you a fixed scope to bid against. Only a minority of DFW companies mention working from one - the table above shows which. What repair actually costs →
It depends entirely on whether it transfers when you sell, and whether it covers the whole foundation or only the piers that company installed. Both are listed above where the company states them publicly. How to read a foundation warranty →
Late summer into early autumn, after a long dry spell. That is when Blackland clay has shrunk furthest from the perimeter beam.
We collected every foundation repair company operating in Dallas–Fort Worth from public listings - 254 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.
120 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 →