Foundation repair, posted rates · Furnace Bend & Slag Hollow · Since 1986
The rate card is the sales pitch. That is the whole pitch.
Doggett posts two sheets — by the foot for what we seal and drain, by the piece for what we stitch and pin — and the first thing on this page is the card itself, not a photograph of a worried homeowner. The $275 reading comes off whatever the verdict names, and a fair share of verdicts name nothing at all.
Same card format since 1989 · staples $152, piers $1,875 — the string and the profile pick which · (555) 034-2279 · rates@doggettrate.example
Services & rates
Sheet one — by the foot and by the pier
From last quarter’s closed jobs across the Bend and the Hollow. No tiers, no packages, no site-visit surcharge — the reading is $275, it comes off the work, and the quote is a ceiling that has never once moved mid-job.
Urethane injection$91 / lin ft
Weeping, moving cracks — gasketed against the melt
Epoxy injection$104 / lin ft
Structural cracks — cured harder than the wall around it
Carbon-fiber staple$152 each
Epoxied across a bowing run, skimmed flush under paint
Helical pier to refusal$1,875 each
Bracketed under the footing, torque logged per pier
Interior perimeter drain$55 / lin ft
Channel at the footing, daylit to the sealed basin
Channel steel, slab to joist$300 / section
Where the bow rides high or the patio stays
Sheet two — the small jobs nobody posts
The reading$275 flat
Gauges, strings, laser profile — verdict in writing
Re-read, ninety days on$120 flat
Same gauges, same hour, closing sheet printed
Tell-tale pair, installed$40 each
Bonded and dated across a watched crack
Downspout extension & discharge$95 each
The cheapest gallon is the one that never arrives
Sump check-valve & cycle test$140 flat
On any existing basin, alarm tested on battery
Battery secondary, retrofitted$1,150 set
Own float, own battery, alarm that texts two phones
Five moves, same order
How a Doggett job runs
The same five moves on every call, with the same instruments — the only variable is which line of the card your wall ends up on.
Read the water first
Gutters, grade, downspouts — half the wet basements in the Hollow are a roof problem in a basement costume, and sheet two fixes those for hundreds, not thousands.
Gauge and map
Dated width gauges on every crack, a position map of each, and the beginnings of a file that will outlive whichever of us sells the house first.
String and profile
Deflection strings on the leaning walls, a laser pass across the slab — the two numbers that decide staples from piers before any price is spoken.
Quote off the card
Written on the spot, off the sheets above, minus the reading fee. The number on the page is the number on the invoice — since 1989, no exceptions.
Re-read at ninety days
Anything we repaired or told you to watch gets the gauges again. Movement changes the plan; stillness closes the file. Either way you get the sheet.
Staples versus piers
The arithmetic, both ways
A twenty-four-foot block wall bowing an inch and a half, on a footing the laser says has not dropped: slots cut every fourth course, eighteen staples at $152 — $2,736, one day of work, finished flush under paint. The same wall misread as settlement: nine piers at $1,875 — $16,875, a week of access pits. Both are honest numbers for different walls, and the difference between them is two measurements we take before we quote. That is the entire reason the reading exists, and the entire reason it comes off the work.
The wrong cheap answer is dear
Staples on a sinking wall slow the bend and hide the cause; piers on a bending wall buy steel the wall never asked for. Our reading says which fight you are in before either number is written — and when the honest answer is neither, you get charged for a reading and told so in ink.
Slag Hollow frost line is 44 inches — walls that wept in October are moving by the March thaw. Readings inside the week: (555) 034-2279.
Furnace Bend & Slag Hollow, 2025 — 2026
Jobs off the card
Six from last season, photographed at sign-off with the gauge still clipped to the string line — and the card line each one closed on.
The first quote wanted eleven piers and a number with a comma I would not repeat. Doggett strung the wall, profiled the slab, and read me the arithmetic off the card: eighteen staples, $2,736, one day. That was three Marches ago — the re-read sheet from last spring says the wall has not moved, and it is taped inside the same cupboard as the deed.
The shop, in figures
Every other outfit measured my basement with their eyes. Doggett brought a laser, two strings and a card — and the number they wrote at the kitchen table was the number on the invoice four weeks later, to the dollar. The re-read in July came free and closed the file.
Sheet two is the most honest page any tradesman has ever shown me. Extensions and a swale for $285 all in, and the puddle that three companies had quoted drains and membranes for never came back. They rang back to check the following spring.
They left the tell-tales on the wall after the epoxy cured and showed me how to read them myself — said to call if the crosshair ever walks. Two years of staring at a little plastic ruler that never moved a millimetre, which turns out to be exactly what peace of mind looks like.
Why lead with the card instead of the photos?
Because the photos tell you what a wall looks like and the card tells you what a wall costs, and only one of those decides whether you make the call. Every Doggett price is on this page — including the reading, the re-read and the tell-tales — so the conversation starts at your kitchen table with numbers, not at my van with a clipboard.
How current are the sheets?
Reprinted each quarter off the previous quarter’s closed jobs, dated at the top, and the rate printed on your file is the rate on your invoice. When steel or resin moves the market, the next printing moves — never the job already quoted.
What if the reading says nothing is wrong?
Then you paid $275 for a document that says your foundation is sound — which has settled more Bend house sales than any repair we have ever done. The verdict names the card line it implies, and one line in five is: none.
Do you finance the big lines?
Through the foundry credit union on posted terms, twelve to sixty months, the rate printed in the agreement. The reading never waits on the financing and neither does the verdict.
What do I get in writing at the end?
The file: your reading, the quote that matched the card, the torque or gauge logs from the work, and the ninety-day re-read sheet. Bound, dated, and transferable with the deed — the warranties ride with the papers, not the owner.
Start at the top of the card
Tell us what the wall, the floor or the puddle is doing and we bring the gauges, the strings and the laser. The $275 reading is the first line of sheet two, it comes off whatever the verdict names, and the arithmetic is yours either way. rates@doggettrate.example