Clay that lifts a house in winter and drops it in August. The floors move with it until they stop coming back.
On Lizella clay a floor rarely just sags. It moves. Kaolin and red clay swell when they take on water and shrink when they dry, so piers riding on that soil go up in the wet months and down in the dry ones, and the floor above does the same.
For a while that movement returns each season and homeowners live with doors that stick and free up. Eventually it stops returning, the floor settles into the low position, and what was seasonal becomes permanent. That is usually the point at which people call.
The fix is to take the support off the moving layer. New footings are set below the zone that wets and dries seasonally, adjustable steel supports go on them, and failed framing gets replaced or sistered. Alongside that we even out moisture around the house with drainage and roof water control, because clay that never swings hard causes far less trouble.
Every Lizella home gets the same sagging floor repair scope, and the written price says exactly what that covers.

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