Foundation Repair in Selma, TX

Selma sits at about 758 feet, below the Balcones Escarpment on the gently rolling prairie between San Antonio and New Braunfels. There is no shallow limestone shelf here like the Hill Country towns to the northwest. Instead the ground is dominated by clay soils that drain toward Cibolo Creek, and those clays swell when it rains and shrink hard in a Central Texas drought. A slab poured on that ground rides the moisture cycle up and down, a fraction of an inch at a time, until one side settles lower than the other.

The second factor is the speed of Selma's growth. When a town multiplies its population nearly fourteen times in two decades, subdivisions go up fast. Many lots around Retama Park, The Forum, and the neighborhoods off exits 173 and 174 were graded with cut-and-fill pads, where one side of the pad is excavated soil and the other side is compacted fill. Fill settles more than undisturbed ground, so homes on these pads often sink on the fill side within their first 10 to 15 years. Builders also plant slabs close together with tight yards, which concentrates roof runoff along foundation edges.

Put those together and the typical Selma call looks like this: a home built after 2005, one corner or one wall dropping, drywall cracks over the door frames, and soil pulling away from the slab edge in summer. The repair is steel piers driven to stable bearing soil below the active clay, a lift back toward level, and drainage work so the clay around the slab holds a steadier moisture level.