Foundation Repair in Blanchard, LA

Blanchard used to be where Shreveport went to feel rural. Fifteen minutes up LA-173 from the North Market Street corridor, it's now one of the fastest-growing corners of Caddo Parish — and every new subdivision slab sits on the same red clay that's been moving houses around the Ark-La-Tex for a century.

A Town Split Between Two Housing Eras

Work Blanchard long enough and you learn to tell a house's age from the street. The older stock — farmhouses and ranch homes on the bigger lots along and off the old highways — is pier-and-beam or block-and-base, many with crawl spaces that have spent decades in the Cross Lake area's wet ground. The newer stock is almost entirely slab-on-grade, built since the 2000s on cleared pine and pasture as the Shreveport metro pushed north. Two different foundation types, two different failure patterns, same expansive soil underneath all of it.

What We Fix in Blanchard

For the slab-on-grade homes — especially the newer ones — the calls usually start three to seven years after the build: hairline drywall cracks, a patio slab that has dropped away from the back wall, driveway panels cracking where the garage slab takes over. That's fill settling and clay doing clay things, and it's where our soil stabilization and spot pier work earn their keep. For the older pier-and-beam homes, it's the classics: soft, springy floors, doors that drift out of square, and crawl spaces that stay damp from April through October. Releveling and sill work handles most of it, and a sealed crawl puts the humidity problem down for good.

Blanchard lots also skew toward the low and wooded, with the drainage quirks that come with that — downspouts that pour against one slab corner, lots that shed water toward the house instead of away. If that's your symptom set, drainage correction is often the cheapest structural fix on the table, and we're happy to say so when it's the whole answer.

Why Blanchard Homeowners Call Us

Because we're close. Our crews run the I-49 corridor to the Blanchard exit (LA-173) daily, and the free inspection covers Blanchard on the same schedule as Shreveport proper — usually within a couple of days of the call. You get the elevation survey, the crack map, and a written quote whether the house is a 1960s farmhouse on piers or a 2021 slab in a new subdivision. And if you're buying one of those new slabs and the inspector flagged settlement, the same report is what your lender needs: see inspection reports.

Also serving nearby: Greenwood, Vivian, and everywhere along the LA-173 corridor between Blanchard and Shreveport.