Low ground, a high water table, and cut-and-fill lots. Bonaire footings sit in soil that changes strength with the season.
Bonaire has the lowest ground in Houston County and a water table that comes up with the season. Soil strength changes with saturation, so a footing that carries the house comfortably in October can be sitting on markedly weaker ground in March.
Add cut-and-fill grading from the subdivision boom of the nineties onward and you get the local pattern. A house bridging cut and fill, with the fill side sitting in ground that saturates every wet season. That side settles, the cut side holds, and the difference shows up as cracks and doors that stop working.
Piers are the answer where settlement has happened, driven past the saturated zone to soil that carries load in every season. Drainage is the answer to keep it from repeating, because on this ground the water is the variable that moves everything. We measure the house, photograph the evidence, and give a written fixed price before any of it starts.
The scope is fixed before we start on a Bonaire home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.

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