Fort Wayne Foundation Co. repairs the full failure chain that saturated glacial till causes: wet basements (drainage from $2,500), bowing walls (from $2,500), settlement (piers from $1,200 each), cracks (from $400), and sunken concrete (from $500) — each preceded by a free measured evaluation.
Basement Waterproofing
Interior drainage, sealed sumps, and discharge that gets water away from till that won’t drain it.
Bowing Wall Repair
Carbon fiber, braces, and anchors for walls loaded by saturated backfill and winter ice.
Foundation Piering & Underpinning
Steel piers to stable bearing when a footing has settled into soft or saturated ground.
Foundation Crack Repair
Injection and reinforcement for cracks that leak, widen, or both.
Concrete Leveling
Polyurethane lifting for sunken driveways, patios, walks, and porch slabs.
Cost Guide: What Repairs Run in Fort Wayne
Every repair class priced for this market, the four factors that move a quote, and how to compare bids.
Why the services come as a set
Water doesn't respect a product line. The same saturated backfill that pushes a basement wall inward softens the bearing soil under a footing, forces water through the block cores, and freezes under the driveway every January. Companies organized around one product sell that product. We're organized around the water, which is why an evaluation reads the whole chain and the scope includes only the links your house actually needs.
Which repair fixes which failure
| What you see | The mechanism | The fix | Typical range | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water at the cove joint, efflorescence, musty air | Saturated till holding water against the wall | Interior drainage and sealed sump | $2,500–$8,000 | 2–4 days |
| Horizontal crack, wall bowing inward | Lateral pressure plus winter ice expansion in the backfill | Carbon fiber, braces, or anchors | $2,500–$10,000 | 1–3 days |
| Stair-step cracks, sticking doors, sloping floors | Footing settling into softened or washed-out soil | Piers driven to refusal | $4,000–$15,000 | 2 days–1 week |
| Cracks leaking or widening across freeze cycles | Movement or shrinkage opening a water path | Injection and reinforcement | $400–$1,500 | Hours |
| Stepped driveway joints, patio tilted at the house | Frost heave and backfill consolidation under flatwork | Polyurethane lifting | $500–$2,500 | Hours |
Two or more symptoms nearly always share one cause. One evaluation, one scope, one mobilization — that's the cost control this ground allows.
Sequence is the service
Anyone can bolt a brace to a wall. The skill in this market is ordering the work so it stays fixed: exterior water corrections first because they're cheap and they reduce volume, interior drainage second because it removes the load, restraint or piering third because by then it's resisting a smaller force, and cosmetic repair last — once movement is provably over. Our scopes are written in that order with fixed prices per line, and lines the measurements don't justify simply aren't on them.
Service questions
Which service does my house actually need?
The evaluation answers that in about an hour. Water at the cove joint points to drainage; a horizontal crack with visible bow points to wall restraint; stair-step cracks with sloping floors point to piering. Most Allen County houses need two of these rather than five, and the evaluation is free precisely so the diagnosis doesn't depend on what we'd like to sell.
Do you charge for evaluations?
No. Photos, crack measurements, wall plumb readings, a laser floor survey, and a written scope with fixed prices are free across every community we serve — including the visits that end with 'extend four downspouts and call us if it comes back.'
Can one crew handle the water and the structure together?
That's the point of the stack, and here it's the difference between a repair that holds and one that doesn't. Drainage, wall restraint, piering, crack work, and slab lifting are one water problem wearing five costumes. Scoping them together in the right order is how you avoid installing steel into a problem that's still running.
Get a free Fort Wayne foundation evaluation
Tell us what the basement is doing — water at the cove joint, a wall bowing inward, a horizontal crack in block, floors going out of level — and we’ll schedule an evaluation with photos, wall measurements, and floor elevations. We reply the same business day.