Meridian Wall & Base · Copperline Basin · Foundation surveyors & repair · Est. 1998
Every repair starts with a datum, not a quote.
Meridian surveys before it sells: a laser elevation profile of the slab to a third of a millimetre, gauges on every crack, strings on every wall that leans. Then — and only then — a repair priced by the foot or by the pier, from a rate sheet that has not changed its format in twenty years.
The packages
Three packages. No menu anxiety.
Every job in the basin ends up as one of these — the reading stands alone, the repair is priced from its findings, and the watch keeps the number honest for years.
The Reading
$285flat, credited back
- Laser elevation profile of the slab
- Gauge and map of every crack
- Deflection strings on leaning walls
- Written verdict: repair or monitor
- Yours to keep, hire us or not
Comes off any repair within a year.
The Repair
from $3,400priced from the reading
- Injection, anchors, piers — as the reading says
- Rate sheet by the foot and by the pier
- Torque and gauge log handed over
- 25-year transferable warranty
- One crew, start to sign-off
The quote is a ceiling, not an opener.
The Watch
$190a year, after any repair
- Annual re-run of the elevation profile
- Tell-tales read and photographed
- Movement alert before it is visible
- Sump and alarm inspection
- Feeds the warranty file
Free the first year with any repair.
By the foot
Polyurethane injection$92 / lin ft
Wet, flexible cracks — sets against moisture
Epoxy injection$104 / lin ft
Structural cracks — cures harder than the wall
Interior perimeter drain$56 / lin ft
Channel at the footing, daylit to the sump
Crack stitching, steel$22 / staple
Staples across recurrence-prone runs
By the pier and the plate
Helical pier$1,790 each
Screwed to refusal torque, bracketed, logged
Wall anchor set$640 each
Earth plate, rod, interior plate, torqued
Channel steel section$295 / section
Slab to joist on concrete anchors
Push pier, deep strata$1,940 each
Hydraulically driven where helicals will not sit
The sequence
From phone call to plumb line
The call
What you are seeing, when it started, whether it has moved. If it is water on the floor today, the emergency line — not the sequence.
The reading
Laser, gauges, strings, moisture meter. Two hours on site, one document in your hands, no repair sold on the same visit — on purpose.
The verdict
Three outcomes only: repair now, monitor and re-read, or nothing at all. A third of our readings end in the third answer and we hand those out gladly.
The work
One crew, one system at a time, plastic to the stairs every night. The log grows as the work does — torque, pressure, deflection, before and after.
The sign-off
Re-run the profile beside the day-one numbers, hand over the binder, start the warranty. The Watch picks it up from there if you want it watched.
2025 — 2026, the basin
Jobs on the board
Six from last year's book with the day-one readings still taped to the wall beside the final ones.
Why a datum first
The number does not move
A foundation quote that changes mid-job was never a quote — it was a guess with a deposit. Ours is written after the instruments have had their say, and the instruments do not negotiate. The rate sheets above are the same ones taped inside the truck doors.
Twenty-five years, in a binder
Piers and anchors carry a transferable quarter-century against further settlement of what they support — and the binder that proves the work, the torque log, the profiles and the gauge map, belongs to the house. Sell it, and the warranty follows the papers.
Meridian told us the crack over the garage door had been still for a decade and charged us for a reading and nothing else. Two neighbors have since paid five-figure pier jobs on the same symptom from other outfits. The binder is on the shelf next to the deed.
The day-one profile showed the slab had dropped eleven millimetres at the north corner. Fourteen piers later the after-profile is inside a millimetre of level, and the two charts are printed on facing pages — anyone can see what the money bought.
We bought the Watch after the anchors went in. Year two they re-ran the strings, found nothing moved, and said so in writing — which the next buyers found more convincing than any fresh paint in the world.
Before the call
Fair questions
The five the phone asks most. The sixth is usually about financing — ask it anyway.
Why survey before quoting?
Because the same stair-step crack can be thirty years of finished settlement or the first year of a failing footing, and they cost a factor of fifty apart. The reading tells us which — and a third of the time the honest answer is that nothing needs doing yet.
Anchors or channel steel for a bowing wall?
Anchors pull and hold over time when there is undisturbed soil outside to grip; channel steel braces immediately when there is not, or when the bow sits high on the wall. The deflection string and the soil map decide — not which is on the truck.
How disruptive is pier work?
Less than feared: access pits at the footing about the size of a doormat, a machine that fits through a gate, and interior work only at the bracket line. Most underpinning jobs run three to five days of noise in a week of work.
Do you finance?
Through the basin credit union on posted terms — twelve to sixty months, the rate printed in the agreement. The reading never waits on the financing; it is $285 and it is yours.
What if the reading says nothing is wrong?
Then you pay for a reading and gain a document that says your foundation is sound — which has settled more house sales in this valley than any repair we have ever done. We will take that trade every time.
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Start with the datum
Book the reading. Two hours on site, a document in your hands, and the $285 comes off any repair that follows. datum@meridianwall.example