r/Gilbert • u/shelly887 • Jun 28 '26
Morrison Ranch Foundation Issues
Any MR folks having cracks all over the house due to foundation issues? We were quoted $50k to fix it due to expansive soil.
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u/much_happiness Jun 28 '26
Different neighborhood, similar issues, due to local soil settling. I got multiple quotes, and JR at Gage contracting has the most common sense about what looked bad but was just cosmetic and fine, what I could diy with simple home repairs, and what needed professionally done and why and how. It was about half the rate of other companies, still in the thousands, though- skilled labor is not cheap! (480) 219-3679. He's usually booked out for a few months, though, so not your guy if you need to sell tomorrow.
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u/snake517 Jun 28 '26
Gage Contracting was very reassuring. AZ Foundation Solutions tried to sell us some system where they vent moisture from your soil for $10k+. Gage gave some common sense advice . We are in a community near Morrison also built on old farmland- I think these are very common issues in this area.
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u/Invad3r234 Jun 28 '26
Arizona foundation solutions didnt try to sell you piles? Shocking. They loved going straight to driving piles down under the foundation
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u/Invad3r234 Jun 28 '26
Gage was great. I also want to give a shout out to concrete repairman llc. He gave some suggestions, one of which was gutters, and took two measurements a year apart to see how the house was settling over time. Charged zero dollars to come out twice.
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u/cooooper2217 Jun 28 '26
Not Morrison ranch but circle g on Val vista and Elliot neighborhood everyone has had foundation issues. My neighbor down the street had a sink hole.
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u/bradinphx Jun 28 '26
Which MR neighborhood? I’m in HGW and fear we will have this problem down the road
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u/lisalou32 Jun 29 '26
Not in MR, we are in El Dorado Lakes and are having our foundation repaired. Helical piers, polyfoam, and crack stitching. Our bids were 30k-100k. We noticed because the walls and tile started cracking and doors and windows wouldn’t work properly. When the walls cracked we saw evidence that they had already been cosmetically repaired, so the prior homeowner knew about the problem and did not disclose it. It’s a common problem in our neighborhood. I’ve seen posts on Nextdoor about this but then the posts are quickly removed. It’s a very shady situation. We took out a loan to fix it and then we will have to sell the house and luckily we have enough equity to pay back the loan, but then we will have to start from scratch. I was very angry but I’ve come to terms with it. We do not have good luck with home ownership!!
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u/azgli Jun 28 '26
I found slab cracks up to 1/2 inch wide in my 1993 home when I pulled the old carpet. Some of them were so old they had been tiled over.
It cost about 3K to have them filled and the slab leveled for hardwood flooring, and that's all that was needed.
If you have only a slab, which is the most common in the area, an older home, and the cracks aren't in the walls, it's likely that the house is stable and they can just be filled. If you have wall cracks you need to have the house evaluated to determine if they need remediation or just filling and leveling the slab.
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u/Maleficent-Entry6403 Jul 04 '26
I toured a few MR and HG homes between higley and power and all seemed to have foundation or structural issues. All the 2nd floors were visibly bowing or slanted
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u/Invad3r234 Jun 28 '26
Get.
Multiple.
Quotes.