Foundation repair

The Foundation Repair pack tunes Manuall for structural work under the house: level surveys and crack mapping, push and helical piers, wall anchors and carbon fiber, interior and exterior drainage, waterproofing, crawl space encapsulation and slab lifting. Apply it at signup from the Trade dropdown, or anytime from Settings -> Vertical Packs.

What the pack adds

Custom fields

Thirteen, across five record types.

• Customer: Foundation Type (Slab, Crawl Space, Basement, Pier and Beam).
• Job: Scope (Inspection, Crack Repair, Piering, Wall Anchors, Drainage, Waterproofing), Crack Width, Pier Count.
• Equipment: Foundation Wall Material, Wall Height / Depth Below Grade (ft), Repairs Already Installed, Baseline Elevation Difference (in), Water Management In Place.
• Lead: What Are You Seeing?
• Invoice: Warranty (Years).

The Equipment record here is not a machine. It is the structure: walls, slab and footings, plus whatever piers, anchors, drain and sump are already in them. Set the baseline elevation on the first inspection and every later visit has something to measure against. Crack Width is text on purpose, so "1/16 hairline, widening to 1/4 at the corner" fits. Add your own in Custom Fields.

Job templates

Thirteen, each with an estimated duration, required skills and prep notes. Foundation Inspection (120 min), Emergency Water Intrusion (120, Emergency priority), Sump Pump Replacement (180), Crack Repair Epoxy / Poly (240), Crawl Space Floor Shoring (300), Floor Leveling / Slab Jacking (480), Carbon Fiber Wall Reinforcement (480), Drainage / French Drain (960, adds Excavation), Crawl Space Encapsulation (960), Pier / Underpinning Install (1,440, Excavation), Wall Anchor / Brace (1,440, Excavation), Waterproofing (1,440, Excavation), Annual Foundation Monitoring Visit (90, Recurring).

The 1,440 minute figures are a calendar day of site occupancy, not crew hours. If you dispatch by the hour, trim them or the slot finder blocks whole days per pier crew.

Each template pre-fills billable lines. Pier / Underpinning Install puts one push pier on the job and Wall Anchor / Brace one anchor, because that count comes off the engineer's plan and nothing here can guess it. The rest: Crack Repair 8 ft of epoxy, Drainage 60 ft of interior drain, Waterproofing 240 sq ft, Encapsulation 1,200 sq ft, Slab Jacking 200 sq ft, Carbon Fiber 5 straps, Shoring 4 jacks. Put the real numbers in before the estimate leaves. See Job Templates.

Services

Twenty-four, all badged "Set your price" until you save them. Per pier or unit: Push Pier ($1,650), Helical Pier ($1,450), Wall Anchor ($495), Steel I-Beam Wall Brace, Carbon Fiber Wall Strap, Crawl Space Support Jack, Sump Pump Installation, Sump Pump Battery Backup, Crawl Space Dehumidifier. Per linear foot: Epoxy and Polyurethane Crack Injection, Interior and Exterior French Drain. Per square foot: Exterior Waterproofing, Crawl Space Encapsulation, Slab Mudjacking, Slab Polyjacking.

The rest are the lines that keep a day from leaking: Foundation Inspection, Crack Monitoring Report, Foundation Monitoring Plan (per year), Trip Charge, Hourly Rate, After-Hours Emergency Response, Excavation Spoil Haul-Away (per cu yd). Prices are a 2025 U.S. national average, and piering swings hard with depth to bearing and access. Six services show in public booking: both inspections, the monitoring plan, the sump pump, the backup and the dehumidifier. Price Book.

Checklists

Three, shipped for you to check against your own procedure. Inspection Checklist (17 items) is the survey: total elevation difference, low point location, widest crack width, crack pattern, out-of-plane wall displacement, wood moisture at the rim, humidity, water evidence, grade slope, downspout discharge distance, sump status, interior distress, and a photo of each measured crack with the tape in frame.

Pier Install Checklist (18 items) is the record that defends the job: 811 ticket, excavation depth to footing, footing thickness, drive pressure at refusal, final installation torque, the torque correlation factor used, depth to bearing, bracket bolt torque, lift achieved, post-lift elevation, photos of the bracket before backfill. Pre-Service Safety Check (10 items) is excavation: competent person named, soil classification, max depth, protective system, ladder within 25 ft of travel, spoil set back 2 ft, atmosphere tested.

Nine of the thirteen templates attach one. Crack Repair, Crawl Space Encapsulation, Sump Pump Replacement and Emergency Water Intrusion ship without. Checklists.

Parts

Twenty-six truck-stock items under an FR- prefix, in seven categories: crack injection (low-viscosity structural epoxy, surface seal paste, ports, hydrophobic polyurethane resin, mechanical packers), piering (push bracket and tube sections, helical lead, extension, retrofit bracket), wall bracing (anchor assembly, carbon fiber strap kit), crawl space (support jack, 12 mil vapor barrier), sump systems (basin kit, pump, battery backup, AGM battery), plus interior drainage channel and slab lifting foam.

Cost and price are a national average, on hand is zero and no reorder point is set, because nothing here knows what is on your truck. Count it and set your own. Twenty bill-of-materials rows tie those parts to twelve services, sized per unit of the service: 0.12 tubes of epoxy and 1.2 ports per linear foot of crack, 0.25 drain channel sections per foot of interior drain, one basin and one pump per sump install.

Two are worth checking against your own numbers. A push pier carries 7 tube sections, about 21 ft of depth, and a helical a lead plus 3 extensions, about 20 ft. If your soil finds bearing at 8 ft, or you routinely drive past 30, that consumption is wrong and your job cost with it. Parts and Inventory.

Seasonal pricing proposals

Seven, all switched off. Spring Thaw and Rain Season on Sump Pump Installation, Mar 1 to May 31, x1.15. Frozen Ground Season on Exterior Waterproofing, Dec 1 to Mar 1, x1.20, which is the real cost of a hammer on the machine and days lost to frost. Summer Drought Settlement Season on Push Pier, Jul 1 to Sep 30, x1.12. Winter Slow Season on Foundation Inspection, Jan 2 to Feb 28, x0.85.

The pricing engine ignores an inactive rule, so nothing moves until you turn one on. The dates assume a freeze climate. On expansive clay in Texas the drought rule is the one that matters and frozen ground is noise. Seasonal Pricing.

Typical workflow

• The inspection is the product, not a favor. Sell it, shoot the elevations, map the cracks, and leave a written report the same day. That report is what a second opinion gets measured against.
• Repairs go out as an estimate with a deposit. Piers and anchors are ordered to a plan, so the deposit covers material you cannot send back. See Estimates and Deposits.
• Underpinning, wall bracing and structural drainage usually pull a permit and an inspection. Log it in Permits so the fee lands against that job's margin instead of overhead.
• Excavation, concrete cutting and plumbing for a sump discharge are commonly outside work. Track them under Subcontractors and flag the row billed-to-customer only when the GC pays that vendor direct.
• Refusal comes early, the footing is half what the plan assumed, an obstruction eats a day: that is a Change Order, not a quiet edit of the estimate.
• The Annual Foundation Monitoring Visit is recurring revenue and warranty defense at once. Wrap it in a Service Agreement and put it on a recurring job.

The report, the warranty, and getting paid in stages

Most piering and bracing work is designed by somebody else. Attach the stamped drawing to the job so the crew reads the same pier count and torque spec the estimate was priced from, and put the engineer's fee on the job as a cost rather than overhead. When the plan and the field disagree, the checklist numbers are what you send back for a revision.

Backfill hides everything the customer paid for, so push the before-backfill photos out through the Customer Portal the day they are taken. That habit pays off later, because the warranty outlives the job by decades and usually transfers with the house. Put the term on the invoice with the Warranty (Years) field, and keep the structure's Equipment record current: repairs installed, baseline elevation, water management in place. A claim opened in Warranties then carries the job, the photos and the torque log with it.

Nobody pays for a $30,000 underpinning in one lump at the end. The deposit rides on the approved estimate, which mints its own invoice and is credited back on the final one, so deposited dollars are never billed twice. Bill the stages after that as separate invoices against the same job, or take partial payments against one invoice. Pick one and stay with it, or reconciling a job against its deposit gets ugly. Invoicing and Payments.

Re-applying and mixing packs

Applying the pack twice adds only what is missing, and never overwrites a price you set or a checklist item you rewrote. Foundation shops commonly run a second pack: Concrete if you already pour the flatwork you tear out, Gutters because half of what you diagnose is water landing at the wall, and Water Restoration or Mold Remediation if you handle the wet basement instead of handing it off. Apply as many as fit from Vertical Packs.