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Foundation trouble in Taylor? Let's take a look.
A free written inspection is the quickest way to know what you're dealing with. We cover Taylor and the rest of Lackawanna County.
Lackawanna County
Foundation repair in Taylor, PA — settlement, cracks, and waterproofing for a former coal town's older homes. Free inspection. Call (570) 576-8464.
Taylor grew up around the anthracite mines, and that history is right under the borough. The housing is largely modest older homes — frame and block, close together, many dating to the mining decades — sitting on ground that was worked heavily below the surface. For most homeowners that never becomes an issue, but it does make Taylor one of the places where we're most careful to separate everyday settlement from mine-related ground movement.
Day to day, the foundation calls here look like the rest of the valley: stair-step cracks in block walls, damp basements on the lower streets near the river, and the occasional settled corner. The fixes are the ordinary ones — crack repair, drainage, sometimes piers — but the inspection matters, because knowing what's actually moving your foundation is the whole game in a town like Taylor.
We cover all of Taylor and the neighboring boroughs. Call and we'll set up a free look.
Seal and reinforce cracks in poured, block, or stone walls.
See detailsStabilize and lift a settled, sinking footing with steel piers.
See detailsStop a basement wall that's leaning under soil pressure.
See detailsInterior drains and sump systems to keep a basement dry.
See detailsSeal and support a damp crawl space and the floors above it.
See detailsNew pumps, backups, and drainage to route water away.
See detailsTaylor sits over ground that was mined extensively, so it's a reasonable thing to ask about. In practice, most foundation problems we inspect here turn out to be ordinary settlement or water. When the signs do point to mine-related movement, we tell you plainly and point you to Pennsylvania's mine subsidence insurance program, which is separate from a standard repair.
Usually a floor that's started to slope, a door that won't latch right, or a stair-step crack that keeps reopening after it's patched. Those are worth an inspection so we can measure the movement and figure out what's under the footing.
Free · No obligation
A free written inspection is the quickest way to know what you're dealing with. We cover Taylor and the rest of Lackawanna County.