Pier & Beam Repair for Perry homeowners
The older houses around the Perry square are textbook pier and beam. Brick columns on shallow footings, heart pine girders spanning between them, joists laid across, and a floor on top that has been carrying families for a hundred years.
What wears that system out here is moisture. Sandy clay between Big Indian Creek and Flat Creek takes water in and holds it, so the ground under the house stays damp for long stretches. Masonry standing in damp ground loses its mortar, and wood sitting close to damp ground softens where it bears.
The repair is careful carpentry and masonry together. Pier courses that have failed get rebuilt with matching brick on new footings, girder and sill sections that have lost strength come out and get replaced, joists get sistered alongside sound original wood, and the floor comes back gradually over several days.
Every Perry home gets the same pier & beam repair scope, and the written price says exactly what that covers.
- Repairs water and moisture damage
- Reinforces piers and beams
- Levels and stabilizes the structure
- Free, no-pressure consultation
