Co-owner, Imperial Foundation Repair in Arlington, TX
Taylor Yates
If the house does not need piers, he will tell you that.
Co-owner of Imperial Foundation Repair in Arlington. Spends most of his week on job sites and in front of homeowners.
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Co-owner, Imperial Foundation Repair
Who You Are Actually Talking To
Taylor co-owns Imperial Foundation Repair with Chris Tinsley. The company has been working out of Arlington since 2017, and Taylor spends most of his week where the work happens, on job sites and standing in driveways with homeowners.
He is usually the one running the elevation survey and walking the outside of the house. That means he sees the same patterns over and over across Tarrant County: one wet elevation, one dry one, a downspout in the wrong place, and a slab riding the difference.
He writes about what those readings actually mean, because the gap between a scary crack and a real structural problem is bigger than most homeowners have been led to believe.
People expect us to walk in and sell them piers. Most of the time the honest answer is smaller than that.
What Taylor handles
- Elevation surveys and diagnosis
- Steel and concrete pier design
- Drainage and grading corrections
- Explaining the readings to homeowners
Foundation repair articles by Taylor Yates
What Taylor Has Written
Cost
What Foundation Repair Actually Costs in Arlington
Nobody can price your house over the phone. Here is what the price is made of, so you can tell a real number from a made-up one.
Diagnosis
The Cracks That Matter, and the Ones That Do Not
Every house in Tarrant County moves. Here is how to tell normal seasonal movement from a foundation that has actually settled.
Local
Why Arlington Foundations Crack
Same city, same clay, wildly different results house to house. The difference is almost always water.
Real estate
Buying a House With Foundation Issues
Foundation movement is not automatically a reason to walk. It is a reason to get numbers before the option period runs out.
Foundation evaluation in Arlington and North Texas
Get a Clearer Answer About Your Property
Call us and talk to a real person.
Tell us what you are seeing. Sometimes the right next step is not a repair.
Talk to us directly
(817) 940-9404Monday through Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Based in Arlington, working across Tarrant County and North Texas.
Have the address handy and a rough idea of what you are seeing. That is enough to get the visit on the schedule.