Lifting Pier and Beam Homes | Safely Jacking Slab Homes
Elevating Commercial Structures
Texas Residential House Lifting and Commercial Building Elevation Experts

There is a common misconception that you cannot elevate a slab home safely without damage. It can be done, but it does take an expert on this type of elevation to prevent damage.

Elevating structures that are on grade (on the ground) or already above grade is routine for us. This is where a slab home typically resides. More than 90% of the time we elevate one and two-story residences that are sitting on a slab at or below ground level.

Most elevations lift the house in one piece; that is, the entire slab is raised and all of the structure above the slab is lifted without disruption or modification.

Safely Lift Your Slab Home

Our teams elevate structures using the Unified Jacking Method. Unified jacking enables large, heavy structures to be lifted intact as one piece. We do this by providing continuous points of structural support so the risk of damage to the structure is very low.

Pier and Beam foundations are common in houses built in areas where soil conditions aren’t ideal for concrete slab foundations. In Texas, you see this type of foundation often in coastal, river, and lakeside homes like you see with vacation homes in Galveston, Texas.

Instead of resting directly on a concrete slab, the home is elevated on concrete pilings or wooden posts that allow for the coastal or river water to run freely beneath it.

Just like with concrete slab home raising, pier and beam foundations are elevated using our Unified Jacking System to prevent damage. We can even lift multi-level pier and beam homes, with beautiful cascading decks and stairs.

Beach House Elevation

Pier & Beam Brick House Elevation

Some commercial locations might need only drainage changes, but others might not have the ability to mitigate flooding for a business in these smaller ways. Our P3 construction teams have been able to help business owners fulfill the objectives of flood mitigation at a fraction of rebuilding costs.

Ways we’ve helped our commercial clients by lifting their structures:

1. Permanent flood elimination
2. Lower cost than rebuilding, and repeated rebuilding from multiple floods
3. Decreased time of business disruption
4. Simplified engineering and permitting requirements

Complicated Structures

It may seem impossible to lift or move complicated structures like retail stores, convenience stores, or gas stations. You might be surprised by what P3 can do!

Contact us about how we might be able to lift your building and commercial structures and help prevent future flooding and loss of business.