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"Purchased a 1906 home in North Portland with an uneven foundation that had been patched for 60 years, but needed serious stabilization work. I contacted multiple foundation contractors in the greater-Portland area and Ram Jack was the only team that provided a full worse-case estimate that included everything that I may need to permanently stabilize the home's foundation. Other contractors' estimates were higher, omitted some of the features of Ram Jack's estimate, and involved greater excavation work around the home. While I was collecting estimates, I had multiple contractors check the levels on the house and could see the home was continuing to sink as much as half and inch in some areas within only a few months, so I knew I had to do something soon as the hotter summers are causing significant erosion to the clay soil in north portland. After paying the 50% down payment, I was quickly in touch with multiple project managers and structural engineers who were able to answer my questions as the work plan developed. I work from home and have two cats, so I was a bit worried about the noise and needing to leave at certain times during the work. Ramjack devised a plan of installing 12 helical piers from the basement and 2 outside for a small crawl space area as well as replacing most of the piers in the basement that had water damage. During the excavation and pier installation, I didn't have to leave my house at all, my cats were fine, none of the utilities ever needed to be turned off and none of the neighbors said they heard more than the hum of the generator outside; insane professionalism. The work team kept me informed at every step of the excavation and pier installation and was able to recover an inch of lift with only a few drywall cracks that I patched in a day. I could have gone further, but wanted to avoid any potential damage to the sewer pipes and stay within my budget. During the lifting, I was standing with the lead construction manager who kept me informed of every risk as we lifted the house bit by bit. During the excavation my basement looked insane with mounds of dirt everywhere, but the construction team cleaned everything flawlessly; all I had to do was a quick mop and the basement was good as new again. Overall had a great experience with RamJack; the 20 years in business shows, most everyone I dealt with had been working with them for years; the construction manager had been doing pier installation for 15 years. The work was expensive, but cheaper than the other local contractors, and certainly way cheaper than replacing the entire basement foundation. Ramjack was even able to take a few grand off the intitial worse-case estimate for solutions not needed. Glad I was able to repair my 120 year old home; here's to another 100 years. Big thanks to Pancho and Stephen, as well as the structural engineers and project managers; I'm very happy with the work."

"They did a great job. There was a bit of debris left (roots and dirt) near the house and I had to ask them to clean dirt off the house. They didn't call for a locate for the digging they did ( it was pretty shallow) which I think they should have done. But the work seemed very good."

"Very efficient, thorough and took the time to show me tons of pictures of the underside of my house. Great explanations of why they choose to do certain things."

"Overall the job was performed well, and our house is now back to about as good as it can get.  Ramjack calls what they do "practical recovery", and this is what I experienced.  It is not exactly level everywhere, but it is within a 1/4 to 1/2 inch or so everywhere, and it will not be rising and falling with the seasons, as it had earlier. 
I moved into my house a little over a year ago.  The expansive clay soil underneath my home was unfortunately eroded due to some poor gutter downspout placement by the initial and previous owners, running the water from nearly half the roof area straight into the ground next to the foundation (not even attempting to guide the drain away from the concrete foundation, but just clipping off the downspout as it entered the dirt next to the foundation).  Sixty years of that had taken it's toll, and the foundation had settled in two areas by about 2 inches.  This 2 inch deviation was over a distance of only about 6 ft in some areas, and put strain and cracks in our wall and ceilings, and caused our doors to go out of alignment regularly.  I was tired of readjusting the bathroom and bedroom doors so they would close.
Ramjack has some excellent crews, and my crew was led by Freddy, who was just awesome in every way.  Freddy communicated everything clearly, was genuinely interested in performing the best foundation repair possible, and made sure I understood and agreed with every step along the way.  They used very stiff channel iron to stabilize the foundation walls and prevent more cracking (I already had multiple cracks in the foundation).  They clearly explained how that would work with the final lift to prevent further cracking of the foundation during the lift.  Freddy and his crew were really courteous, friendly, and industrious throughout the time they were here.  I would ask for Freddy's crew to perform your job, but I think all Ramjack's crews are pretty good.  The final lift with Ramjack's owner (Ken Marquardt) supervising was performed well.  It was a bit of an anxious time for me, but it turned out well, and I am quite satisfied with the final result.
I had a bid from the major competition to Ramjack also, but after seeing the foundation repair work the competitor performed for my niece, I was leery of their performance, and went with Ramjack instead.  I am happy with that decision.  The helical piers are, in  my opinion, the way to go for the majority of foundation lifts.  The push pier system that the competitor used for my niece's house resulted in multiple new cracks in their foundation.  I would highly recommend Ramjack and their helical piers.
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"Arthur Silva and his son did a great job on my sidewalk, steps to lower level of yard, and supports for new pergola. They were on time, worked hard, and finished the jobs with obvious experience and quality. I would recommend them to others and hire them again myself."

"The bidding process is very efficient. You can see the costs of each part of the job. The crew was friendly and efficient and were willing to answer any question I had and walked through everything they were going to do before they did it."

"The contracted the work off to a third party. Jon took longer than expected. The windows was installed pretty good from the looks. Communication could have been better with knowing the job will take longer and what types of trims I wanted for the windows. As the contractor that was hired for this job by this company. Did a good job with putting up decent trim. As for the new windows they look great. I purchased the myself and hired sentri homes to install them. I will need to have a my siding on my house redone to be closer to the new windows so the gaps are not so obvious. That was not expected at first. But from old storm windows and not knowing how they were put in originally. There was some unknown things that was learned from the job being completed. I will have the siding of the house slightly done to match really good for what I wanted later on. My only concern is better communication with sentri homes. Overall they were great when I did talk to them."

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"Went great! we were able to rent the house we loved . Process was great and my questions were answered immediately. Cassie Ott provides great customer service and made the process easy ."