Everything below is offered across Birmingham, Jefferson County and the northern part of Shelby County. If you are not sure which of these you need — and most people are not, because the symptoms overlap — start with an inspection and let the diagnosis decide.
Structural Repairs
Foundation repair covers the whole picture: assessing why a house has moved and putting it back on stable ground, whether that means steel piers under a settled footing or new support under a sagging crawl space.
Foundation settlement repair deals specifically with the most common failure here, where part of the house has dropped because the soil beneath it stopped carrying the load.
Foundation wall repair addresses a different problem that is often confused with settlement: a wall being pushed inward by saturated clay behind it, which needs anchors or carbon fiber rather than piers.
Foundation crack repair covers sealing and injection, along with the equally useful service of telling you which cracks need nothing done at all.
Crawl Space Work
Crawl space encapsulation seals the space from the ground and the outside air, which is the durable answer to Alabama humidity and the reason vented crawl spaces fail here.
Crawl space repair rebuilds the piers, girders and joists that hold your floors up, and is frequently what a house with sloping floors actually needs rather than perimeter underpinning.
Crawl space waterproofing handles liquid water — drainage, sumps and grading — which has to come before sealing anything.
Crawl space mold treatment deals with what grows when timber stays damp, and more importantly with the moisture that caused it.
Crawl space insulation covers why fiberglass batts between the joists keep ending up on the ground here, and what works instead.
Basements and Assessment
Basement waterproofing suits Birmingham’s hillside homes, where water traveling downhill through the soil arrives at one particular wall.
Foundation inspection is where most people should start. It answers the only question that matters before you spend anything: is this structural, or is it something a house does?
How Pricing Works
None of this can be priced accurately over the phone, and anyone who does so is guessing. What can be done on a call is telling you roughly which category of job you are in and what would move the number up or down.
Repairs are normally quoted after an inspection, and structural work does not usually include cosmetic repair by default — piers stop the movement, but patching drywall, repointing brick and re-hanging doors are generally separate.