Foundation Repair Serving the Asheville Area
7 local businesses listed
Foundations move more in the mountains than they do on flat ground. Water running downhill against a footing, clay soils that swell and shrink, and homes built into a grade before anyone was thinking about drainage all add up. The symptoms show up indoors first: doors that stop latching, a crack that reopens every spring, a floor with a noticeable slope by the time you’re standing in the middle of the room.
Most of what gets called foundation repair around here is really water management. Piers and helical anchors have their place, but if the reason the footing settled is a downspout dumping against the wall, fixing the structure without fixing the water buys you a few years at best.
Get a structural engineer’s assessment before you accept a repair plan. A repair company diagnosing the problem it also sells the fix for has an obvious conflict, and an independent report costs a fraction of the work.
Below the listings you’ll find why the grade matters so much here, what changed after Helene, and the questions worth asking before you sign anything.
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ABC Water Solutions
ABC Water Solutions — Asheville Basement and Crawlspace — is a family-owned and operated waterproofing and restoration company serving Western North Carolina and most surrounding areas with 17 years of experience. ABC Water Solutions specializes in basement and crawl space waterproofing. We install vapor barriers for moisture in basements and crawlspaces, floor jacks for sagging floors, and carbon fiber strips on cracked walls for structural reinforcement. We also install french drains and other outside drainage systems. We specialize in mold remediation and water restoration. Our top priority is providing our customers with exceptional service that they can trust.
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Asheville Waterproofing Company
We are family owned local business with 15 years of experience. Our experts specialize in foundation waterproofing and repair. We offer interior and exterior waterproofing, crawlspace waterproofing, encapsulations, landscape drainage, insulation, humidity control, mold remediation, gutter installations, decking, flooring, and drywall. Turn key finish and with you every step of the way. Asheville Waterproofing Company pride ourselves in doing the job right the first time and coming up with an affordable and lasting solution for your problem. Our deck and gutter pros have over 15 years of experience and equipped to handle any size job. Fully insured and provide free estimates!
BRS Pros (Basement & Radon Solutions)
Basement & Radon Solutions — BRS Pros — is a Hendersonville company covering the below-grade side of the house: basement waterproofing, crawl space encapsulation and repair, foundation repair, sump pumps, and dehumidifiers. The radon half of the business is the less common piece. Western North Carolina sits on granite and gneiss bedrock, and radon readings here run higher than much of the state, so testing before a real estate transaction is routine in some Buncombe and Henderson County neighborhoods. BRS handles both the testing and the mitigation system. The EPA's [radon guidance for homeowners](https://www.epa.gov/radon) is a reasonable place to start if you're unsure whether to test. They inspect before quoting, design solutions per house rather than off a menu, and follow up after the job to confirm the system is doing what it should. Service area covers Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
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DryWorx Asheville
DryWorx is a veteran-owned, family-run company working out of Burnsville, up in Yancey County, and covering the greater Asheville area from Arden and Biltmore Forest through Black Mountain. The list goes further into structural work than most crawl space companies: alongside encapsulation, ventilation, dehumidification, and waterproofing, they repair the floor system itself, including dry rot. That matters because rot in the framing above a damp crawl space is the damage people find last, usually after the moisture problem has been running for years. Basement work is here too, with drainage systems, crack repair, and sump pump installation and service. Being based in Burnsville puts them closer to the northern end of the region than most companies on this page, which is worth knowing if you're in Yancey or Madison County.
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Foundation and Crawl Space Pros
Foundation and Crawl Space Pros is owned by Jack and Kayla Kitching, who ran Oak and Ivy Builders before starting this business specifically around crawl space and foundation work in the mountains. They're a licensed North Carolina General Contractor, which is worth noting in this category. A general contractor's license covers structural work outright, where a lot of crawl space companies are set up only to sell encapsulation and moisture control. The service mix runs crawl space encapsulation, foundation waterproofing and repair, and insulation, including spray foam and blown-in cellulose. Doing the insulation and the encapsulation together makes sense on a mountain crawl space, since sealing the space changes how the floor above needs to be insulated. Coverage is unusually wide for an independent: Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood, Madison, Transylvania, Yancey, and McDowell counties, including Asheville, Hendersonville, Black Mountain, Weaverville, Waynesville, Brevard, Mars Hill, and Marshall.
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K-Wall Poured Walls, LLC
K-Wall Poured Walls has been pouring foundations from Foundation Way in Fletcher since 1993 — an address that is either a coincidence or a good sign, depending on how you look at it. They both manufacture and install, which is the unusual part. Alongside conventional poured walls they produce **PreKast** precast panels at their own plant, so a foundation can go in faster and in weather that would stop a site pour. The line extends to flatwork, decorative concrete, epoxy floors, waterproofing, and gypsum underlayments — including Gyp-Span Radiant for in-floor heating. The Concrete Foundations Association of America named them **Contractor of the Year in 2008**, and they remain a CFA member and a member of the Builders Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One practical argument they make for poured over block: concrete off-gasses nothing and gives fungi nothing to hold onto — worth weighing in a climate as damp as this one. A sister operation runs in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Sexton Brothers Construction
Sexton Brothers Construction is a veteran-owned, family-operated foundation company working out of Asheville, run by Joey Sexton as president with Josh Sexton as COO and Bob Harrell as a partner. They handle cracked and settling foundations, crawl space and floor system repair, waterproofing, drainage, and encapsulation, and they also pour new foundations and build retaining walls. That last part is less common in this category and useful on a graded lot, where the retaining wall and the foundation are often the same conversation. Their stated standard is exceeding local building code and the structural engineer's specification rather than meeting it, which is the right answer if you've already had an independent engineer scope the work. Service area covers Asheville, Hendersonville, Waynesville, Black Mountain, and Brevard.
Why foundations move more here
On flat ground, a footing mostly deals with the weight above it. On a mountain lot it also deals with everything moving downhill: water, soil, and sometimes the slope itself.
Three things make Asheville different from the national advice you’ll read:
The house is built into a grade. One side of the foundation retains soil and the other is exposed. Those two sides experience completely different pressure and completely different moisture, and they don’t settle at the same rate.
The water has somewhere to go, and it’s your wall. Roof runoff, driveway runoff, and the neighbor’s uphill yard all converge somewhere. If that somewhere is the uphill corner of your foundation, the soil there stays saturated and loses bearing capacity.
Bedrock is shallow and uneven. Part of your footing may be sitting on rock while ten feet away it’s on soil. Rock doesn’t settle and soil does, and differential settlement across that boundary is what cracks a wall.
Reading a crack
Length is the thing people measure and the thing that matters least. Width and direction carry the information.
| What you’re looking at | What it usually means | Worth a call |
|---|---|---|
| Hairline vertical, poured wall | Concrete curing and normal settling | No |
| Wider than about a quarter inch | Movement beyond curing | Yes |
| Horizontal, anywhere | Pressure against the wall from outside | Yes |
| Stair-step through block joints | Differential settlement under the footing | Yes |
| Any crack still opening | Whatever caused it hasn’t stopped | Yes |
That last row outranks the others. A quarter-inch crack that has sat unchanged for twenty years is a smaller problem than a hairline one that has doubled since spring. Put a pencil mark and a date at each end of anything you’re watching and look again in three months — that record is the most useful thing you can hand an engineer, and it costs nothing.
Water first, structure second
The single most useful idea on this page: most of what gets sold as foundation repair around here is water management wearing a more expensive name.
If the footing settled because a downspout has been discharging against the wall for fifteen years, piers will stop the movement and the water will keep working. You’ve bought time, not a fix. Any company worth hiring will walk your lot before it talks about piers, and will have opinions about your gutters, your grading, and where your downspouts discharge.
That’s also why drainage and waterproofing companies overlap heavily with this category. Several businesses on this page appear in all three.
The crawl space is where the problem usually lives
Most homes here sit on crawl spaces rather than slabs or full basements, so most local foundation work is crawl space work: encapsulation, vapor barriers, drainage, sump pumps, dehumidifiers, and repairs to the floor system above.
The order matters more than the product list. Encapsulation seals moisture in exactly as well as it seals moisture out. Done before the water is under control, it traps the problem under a nice white liner where you can’t see it. Ask any company quoting encapsulation what they plan to do about the water first, and treat a vague answer as your answer.
What Helene changed
Helene came through Western North Carolina in late September 2024, and the ground has been settling out ever since. Foundation damage from an event like that isn’t always obvious in the weeks afterward. Saturated slopes keep moving, retaining walls start to lean, and a floor drops a little more each season.
If your lot took on water or lost soil in 2024 and something indoors has changed since, that connection is worth raising with whoever looks at it. It changes what they inspect and it may change what your insurer is willing to discuss.
Piers, anchors, and why the rock matters
When a fix really is structural, the question is what the new support bears on and how deep that is.
Helical piers get turned into the ground until they hit torque, which makes them predictable on soil. Push piers get driven to refusal. Shallow bedrock is generally good news, because bearing is close by, but it also means depth can vary sharply across one wall. A crew that hits rock at four feet on one corner and eighteen on the next is not doing anything wrong, and a quote that priced every pier the same was a guess.
Ask what happens to the price if the depth comes in different from the estimate. Get the answer before work starts, in writing.
Get your own engineer
For anything structural, hire the diagnosis separately from the repair.
An independent structural engineer’s report costs a fraction of the work and does two things a sales visit can’t. It tells you what’s actually wrong, and it gives you a written scope you can hand to three companies so you’re comparing the same job. Without it you’re comparing sales pitches.
You can confirm anyone’s credentials through the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, which publishes a public license lookup. If someone calls themselves an engineer and isn’t in there, that’s your answer. Engineering firms in the area are listed here too.
How companies get listed here
Listings are free, and businesses can claim theirs to keep hours, services, and contact details current. A small number pay for a featured slot, which moves them up the page and is labeled where it appears. Nothing else about the order is for sale, we don’t sell your contact information, and we don’t charge these companies per lead.
Every company on this page is based in Western North Carolina. That’s a deliberate edit, not an accident of who applied. Foundation repair attracts large multi-state operations that buy their way into every local search result, and several of them were on this page until recently. They came off. A company running crews in seven states isn’t what this directory is for, whatever the quality of its work.
That still leaves you one question to ask whoever you call: who will actually be under your house, are they employees or subcontractors, and who do you call in three years if something moves again. A local company should be able to answer all three without checking.
Frequently asked questions
How do I know if a crack is serious or just normal settling?
Width and direction tell you more than length. Hairline vertical cracks in a poured wall are common and usually cosmetic. Horizontal cracks, stair-step cracks through block joints, and anything wider than about a quarter inch are worth a professional look. So is any crack that keeps getting wider. Put a pencil mark and a date at each end of the crack and check it in three months. That record is the single most useful thing you can hand an engineer.
Why do so many Asheville homes have crawl spaces instead of basements?
Grade and rock. On a sloped lot it's cheaper to step a shallow foundation down the hill than to excavate a full basement, and in a lot of Western North Carolina you hit bedrock before you get basement depth. The result is that most of the foundation problems here are crawl space problems, and most of the companies on this page do far more crawl space work than anything else.
Should I get a structural engineer before hiring a repair company?
For anything structural, yes. A repair company that diagnoses the problem also sells the fix, which is a conflict even when the company is honest. An independent engineer's report costs a fraction of the repair and gives you a scope to bid out, so you're comparing quotes on the same work instead of comparing sales pitches. You can verify any engineer's license through the state board.
Is crawl space encapsulation worth it in Western North Carolina?
In this climate it usually earns its keep, because the humidity is the thing driving mold, musty air, and cupped floors above. The catch is that encapsulation seals moisture in as effectively as it seals it out. If water is still entering the crawl space, sealing it without fixing the drainage first makes the problem worse, not better. Any company that quotes encapsulation before addressing where the water comes from is selling in the wrong order.
Could Helene have caused foundation damage that's only showing up now?
It's plausible and worth checking. Saturated ground moves for a long time after the water goes down, and slope movement shows up slowly: a retaining wall that starts to lean, a section of floor that drops over a season, a crack that reopens wider each spring. If your lot took on water or lost soil in 2024 and something has changed indoors since, get it looked at rather than waiting to see if it settles.
What does foundation repair cost in Asheville?
Too much depends on the diagnosis to give a useful range. What moves the number is the cause, how many piers or anchors the fix needs, how deep they have to go before they find bearing, and whether access under the house is easy or miserable. Get an engineer's scope first, then bid that scope to two or three companies. Quotes that arrive without anyone going under the house are not quotes.
Do I need to test for radon while I'm doing crawl space work?
It's a sensible time to do it. Western North Carolina sits on granite and gneiss bedrock and radon readings here run higher than much of the state, so testing is already routine in some Buncombe and Henderson County real estate deals. Sealing or encapsulating a crawl space changes how air moves under the house, so if you're going to test, test before and after.