Structural Repair, a house that feels solid underfoot
It usually starts with a floor with a slope you can feel through your feet. The hard part is not the work - it is that every structural company sounds equally sure of itself, and you get one guess. We check licence and insurance before we introduce anyone, and we record the date we checked.
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Structural Repair in short
Structural repair services stabilize or restore the parts of a house that carry load: foundations, footings, basement and retaining walls, beams, joists and load-bearing walls. The common jobs are crack sealing, slab jacking, piering or underpinning, bowing-wall reinforcement, and house leveling. Costs range from about $200 for crack sealing to $20,000-$30,000 for lifting a house, per Fixr's 2026 data.
Foundation repair averages $5,179 nationally in 2026, with most projects between $2,224 and $8,134, according to This Old House. The method drives the price: crack sealing runs $200-$1,000, mudjacking $500-$1,900, carbon fiber wall reinforcement $4,000-$12,000, and underpinning or piering $10,000-$40,000, per Fixr's 2026 data.
Explore Structural Repair
Everything we publish on structural repair, grouped the way homeowners actually search - not the way a company would organise it.
- Services 11 services - replacement, repair, and specialty work 11 pages
- Cost What structural repair actually costs in 2026, by type and by city 171 pages
- Problems Something wrong? Start here 7 pages
- Comparisons Option A vs. B, compared honestly 2 pages
- Guides In-depth guides on structural repair, written and reviewed by pros 4 pages
- Tools Estimate your project cost in under a minute 5 pages planned
- Brands 3 structural repair brands, compared on price and warranty 3 pages planned
- Decision Guides Which option is actually right for your home 3 pages
- Checklists Step-by-step checklists before you hire 4 pages
- Emergency Something urgent? What to do in the next hour 1 page
- Maintenance Keep it working - schedules and upkeep 1 page
- Components Every component, explained 7 pages
- Financing Ways to pay over time, and what they really cost 1 page
- Seasonal When to book, and what each season changes 1 page
- Permits Permit rules and what they cost 1 page
- Insurance What insurance covers, and what it does not 1 page
- Warranties What the warranty actually covers 1 page
- Research The data behind our recommendations 5 pages planned
- FAQ Answers to the most common structural repair questions 1 page
- Glossary Structural repair terms explained in plain English 7 pages
- AI Tools Describe the problem, get a plain-English answer 1 page planned
How a pro gets in front of you
Most sites sell your number to whoever pays the most for it. We do not - your details reach only the structural companies matched to your job. We are building licence and insurance checks on top of that, and we will publish each one with the date it was performed rather than claim it in advance.
A few pros, never a list
Your details go to the small number of local companies matched to your job, and to nobody else. They are not sold on.
No paid placement
A company cannot buy a better position in a match or in our rankings. Where we rank, the method is published so you can re-score it yourself.
Check the licence yourself
Ask for the number and look it up on your state board’s public register. We are building this into the match; it is not running yet.
Ask the insurer, not the contractor
Get liability and workers’ compensation certificates sent to you by the insurance agency direct. A forwarded PDF proves nothing about today.
What structural repair usually costs
Ranges, with the source and the date underneath. Anyone quoting you a single national number is guessing, and you should know enough to notice.
No verified structural repair price ranges published yet.
We don’t publish a cost until we can show the data behind it. If you need a
number today, the quote form gives you real prices from local companies.
HomeMatchup vs. a lead site vs. doing it yourself
Three ways to get this work done. Here’s what each one actually gives you.
| HomeMatchup | Typical lead site | DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many companies call you | A short, named shortlist you agreed to | Often 4-5+ at once, sold to whoever buys the lead | None - the work is on you |
| Licence & insurance | Self-reported today - we tell you how to check it and are building the check in | Usually self-reported by the contractor | Your own permits and liability |
| What it costs you | Free - pros pay us, and only for a real match | Free, but your number is resold | Materials plus your time |
| Price guidance before you talk | Published ranges with the data behind them | Rarely shown before you hand over details | You research it yourself |
| If it goes wrong | A named company, and a record of who received your job | Hard to trace which site sold the lead | No recourse |
Describes how HomeMatchup operates and the common lead-generation model. Not a claim about any named competitor.
What people say after they’ve hired
We’d rather show you nothing than show you someone else’s reviews.
Plenty of sites fill this space with reviews scraped from elsewhere, or written for them. We don’t. The first structural repair review on this page will come from a homeowner we matched, after their work was finished and paid for.
- Only from homeowners we actually matched
- Only after the job is complete
- Published unedited, including the bad ones
- 1You get matchedA few checked pros, free
- 2Work gets doneCheck their licence and insurance first
- 3We ask youOnce, after completion
- 4It appears hereExactly as you wrote it
Structural Repair questions, answered
The questions homeowners ask us most about structural repair.
Structural Repair components
The components you'll actually be choosing between.
The wrong structural hire costs more than the right one.
Structural work needs an engineer before it needs a contractor. Skip that order and you are buying a repair nobody has proven you need. Getting matched takes about a minute, costs nothing, and you can walk away from every quote you receive.
Free · No obligation · Only your matched pros get your details