Bowing roofs or walls? Sagging floors? Walls or ceilings with large cracks getting worse over time? Posts in your basement decaying? These could be signs of structural damage that may need to be fixed as soon as possible.
Delaying structural repairs to your home just adds to the expense of the eventual repair. Meanwhile, structural damage eats into your equity and makes it tougher to sell or refinance your home.
Once we start your job we will not leave until it’s finished. Job durations vary by the number of trades and types of repair.
Types of structural home repair
Major structural members and systems that we repair include:
For the most part, we provide residential structural engineering design services* only when we are also going to be doing the physical construction. This reduces our liability and improves outcomes for customers who benefit from having a single point of accountability. We do provide engineering design services on a standalone basis, but only in special situations including when the project is located outside our immediate service area (and where it is impractical for us to manage the construction).
Our designs are grounded in practice and will save you money without sacrificing durability or aesthetics.
We can usually get an engineer out to your site, and have a complete, permit-ready package within a week.
*Our services include site inspection, load-bearing analysis, engineering, and documentation.
Why you should use us for engineering?
Residential structural work and wall removal are all we do. Our engineering solutions come from extensive field experience. We are guided not only by what will be safe and durable, which always comes first but also by what will be practical and inexpensive for the customer.
We are easy to work with. And, we’re punctual.
Enlarging a living space nearly always requires removing one or more walls, including those that are bearing loads. This can sometimes be a significant undertaking that requires engineering, project planning, and experienced execution.
If the wall is load bearing, you will need a documented engineered design that correctly anticipates and transfers load across new paths, a permit from the city, temporary supports, new structural members cut and fit perfectly, and the ability to adapt safely when (not if) you discover what had not been anticipated.
Once we start your job we will not leave until it’s finished. Most jobs take 2 to 3 days.
Is that a load bearing wall?
This is probably the most common question we get. While we can’t tell for sure without a site visit, we usually have a pretty good idea and can give you the benefit of our experience over the phone (no charge). Email us some pictures (wide angles are better, and we will need an outside shot of your home as well), and let us know when your home was built, where the wall is in the home, and what two rooms/spaces are on either side of it.
About Our Structural Repair Contractor Service
What we do
- We fix roof trusses and rafters.
- We pour concrete foundations.
- We install new posts and replace decayed structural members.
- We repair floor trusses in new homes.
- We straighten out sagging floors and bowing walls.
- We level houses.
More than half our projects take two to three days to complete and cost little relative to the value of your home or building.
We turn this…
…into this.
What you can expect
Engineering (a necessary precursor to any structural work)
After our initial phone call in which we gather the facts (it will save you time, so schedule that call today), an engineer and a project manager can usually visit the site the same week.
The complete engineering package takes 5 to 7 work days from start to finish, and is uploaded to a private folder set up for you.
Engineering for simple repairs, such as the replacement of rotted posts or the re-design of standard trusses, costs less than $1,000.
Structural repair (demolition and construction)
When the engineering is complete we can give you a firm quote for your project. Your project is scheduled after you approve the paperwork. In select cases, we may elect to perform some advance demolition, to better prepare for an uneventful completion.
Once we begin work on your site, we will not leave for another site until the work is completed. We are fastidious about being neat and will clean up the (unavoidable) mess before we leave.
Structural repair projects are all over the board. Depending on the scope of the project and how many trades are involved, projects range between $5,000 and $35,000. Half our projects take 3 or fewer days and most projects are completed within 5 days.
Truss webs cross-tied for rigidity
Why you should act now, not later.
Once some portion of a structure begins to give, the underlying causes tend to feed on themselves. Things then get worse, usually quietly and invisibly. Years may go by.
When the trouble first becomes known, modest corrective action is often sufficient. But, many homeowners elect to postpone repairs until some more opportune time. By the time the problem re-surfaces as a “must fix”, the scale of the restoration and repair work may have grown several-fold.
If you catch yourself kicking the can down the road on a structural repair or corrective action, remind yourself that by waiting you are effectively helping the underlying issue eat away at the equity in your home. There is no upside to waiting.
Timely structural repairs are quicker, cost less, and can be completed with little or no mess or disruption.
Don’t dawdle.
Types of Structural Repair
Major structural members and systems that we repair include:
Simple concrete pad under a staircase
Floor trusses stiffened to eliminate “give”
Load Bearing Wall Company
We proudly serve the Central Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, and the Twin Cities Metro area. All local governments have their own set of rules and permits. We ensure that all those requirements are met. We pride ourselves on being #1 in customer service. We serve customers in Duluth, Rochester, Minneapolis and St Paul as well as the metro suburbs including Edina, Plymouth, Golden Valley, Roseville, and Eagan. Our service area extends to Shakopee and Lakeville to the south, Stillwater in the east, Elk River and Forest Lake to the north, and Chanhassen and other townships west of Wayzata and Excelsior.