About Us: What Happens to a Request From Tallahassee, FL
Here is how Foundation Repair Tallahassee FL handles a request from a home in Tallahassee, FL, elsewhere in Leon County, FL or one of five nearby towns: why we exist, where a request goes, and what to check before you sign with anyone.
How Your Request Gets Handled
A foundation worry tends to start quietly, with a split in the drywall or a sliding door that sticks. Most people want a plain explanation before they want a work truck in the driveway, and Foundation Repair Tallahassee FL exists to give it: what a sign can mean, what national cost ranges show, how Florida licenses structural work and which office handles a permit.
Our pages are written for homes around Tallahassee, FL: Leon County's sand and clay over limestone, the City's permit rules, and the offices in Wakulla County, Gadsden County and Jefferson County.
We are not a contractor, and we hold no Florida license of any kind. When you want the house seen, we hand one request to one independent local foundation specialist; it costs you nothing to send. Whether to reply is the specialist's call, and any visit, proposal or repair is its own to offer and yours to turn down.
The Steps, One at a Time
- Your request arrives. It names the address and how to reach you, plus what made you write.
- One specialist receives it. We read it through and give it to a single local foundation specialist, never to a list of names.
- The specialist chooses whether to reply. If it can help, it usually gets in touch by phone or email about coming to the house.
- A visit, then possibly a written proposal. At the house, it studies walls, floors and drainage; if it sees work worth doing, it writes a proposal. Look up the Florida license number on it before deciding.
Checking a Foundation Company Before Hiring
Licensing, registering, inspecting, rating and vouching for the specialist are not things we do, so these checks fall to you, with any contractor. They are general information, not legal advice.
- The license number. Florida's licensing board treats structural work as licensed work. Ask for the number, look it up on DBPR's license search, and see that one business name runs through the license, proposal, contract and permit.
- The permit office. Inside Tallahassee city limits, the City's Growth Management department, which registers contractors before issuing them permits; elsewhere in Leon County, the County's DSEM; in the towns, their own offices. Ask who pulls it.
- A written contract. The scope, the total price, start and end dates, the payment plan and the pier details (count, type, placement), along with the Recovery Fund and lien-law notices Florida requires on home repair contracts over $2,500. Changes go in signed change orders.
- Lien releases. Ask for written releases from the contractor and any suppliers it names before the last payment.
- An engineer's review. Ask whether a Florida-licensed professional engineer will go over the repair plan.
- Plumbing or wiring. Each needs its own licensed plumbing or electrical contractor; ask who handles it.
- Warranty and references. Written warranty terms, whether they transfer, and references.
- Signing at your kitchen table. When a seller comes to your home and you sign there, away from its business, Florida law may allow canceling up to midnight on the third business day. It may not reach a job that began with your own request, so ask whether it applies.
Who Does the Repair Work
We take requests, answer general questions and pass each request on. The specialist carries out every hands-on step under its own name: the visit, measurements, proposal, contract, permit paperwork and repair. Plumbing, electrical and HVAC work are no part of what we do, nor are pricing, bidding, estimating, inspecting, scheduling, supervising or guaranteeing.
Put the Process to Work
Put the address and what you've noticed in a request. We'll pass it along, and the specialist may say it only needs watching.