Not every crack needs piers — but every crack needs an honest answer about which kind it is. If you're dealing with this in Fortville, you're not looking at a rare problem — it's one of the most common calls we get in Hancock County.
Fortville's smaller-town housing stock includes a number of older homes with block foundations, where basement waterproofing and crack repair are the calls we run most often. We regularly work near Downtown Fortville and Sugar Creek area, and across the rest of Hancock County.
In Fortville, the driver is usually the ground itself: older, settled Hancock County clay under a mostly small-town housing stock. Combined with an older, well-settled housing stock, that's the pattern behind most of the foundation crack repair calls we run near downtown Fortville and the rest of Hancock County. It's a regular call here, though Basement Waterproofing tends to come up just as often given Fortville's mostly established, decades-old construction.
Most Fortville jobs on this kind of housing stock are predictable to schedule — the work itself is well understood on homes this age.
A vertical crack running down (or up from) a poured concrete foundation wall
Water seeping through a crack after heavy rain
A crack you can see daylight through, or one wide enough to fit a coin
A horizontal crack, or a stair-step pattern in a block wall (get this looked at promptly)
A crack that's grown noticeably wider over a few months
Efflorescence (white mineral deposit) forming specifically along a crack line
Rigid, high-strength epoxy is injected under pressure to fully bond the crack, restoring structural continuity to the wall. Used on cracks where strength matters, not just water sealing.
Expanding polyurethane fills the crack and remains slightly flexible, making it the right choice for pure waterproofing on cracks that may see minor seasonal movement.
For accessible cracks, exterior-grade sealant and membrane patching adds a second line of defense above and beyond the interior injection.
If a crack is a symptom of wall pressure rather than simple shrinkage, we'll recommend carbon fiber straps or wall anchors instead of — or in addition to — injection.
Standard epoxy or polyurethane injection on a shrinkage crack typically runs $300–$1,200 per crack. Cracks tied to structural movement, which require reinforcement rather than injection alone, run higher. We'll tell you plainly if this is a small fix or a bigger one, and why.
We'll call to confirm a time \u2014 usually within one business day.