Construction & Remodeling in Round Rock, TX

Round Rock is the slab city. Where Austin's older neighbourhoods sit on piers, most of Round Rock went up between the 1980s and the 2000s on slab-on-grade — the housing grew in waves around Dell, and each wave brought a subdivision built to the standard of its decade.

That single difference changes almost every conversation we have here. Foundation movement on a slab is a different problem from foundation movement on piers, additions have to be tied into a slab rather than a beam, and the houses are new enough that the work is usually about making them bigger rather than putting them right.

Why local knowledge matters in Round Rock

The other Round Rock fact is the trees. The older sections have thirty and forty years of growth in them now, and a mature oak or elm close to the house pulls a remarkable amount of water out of the clay in a dry summer — right beside the slab, on one side only. That is why so many Round Rock foundation complaints are about one corner of the house rather than the whole of it.

And these are family houses with room around them. A Round Rock lot usually has space to build on, which is why adding beats moving here more often than it does closer in.

• Mostly slab-on-grade subdivisions from the 1980s through the 2000s, so the foundation problems here look different from Austin's pier and beam
• Dell has been the anchor employer for decades, and the housing grew around it in distinct waves
• Older sections have mature trees whose roots pull moisture out of clay right beside the slab
• Family houses that have run out of room, on lots with space to add to

Neighbourhoods we work in: Old Town, Forest Creek, Teravista, Behrens Ranch.