Olshan Foundation Repair

Starting with sales person, job supervisor and entire crew they all did a wonderful job

Work crew was very conscientious and respectful. They did an outstanding job protecting my landscape and restoring it to its original setting. The work itself was done in a professional manner. I would recommend these folks to anyone.

ALL Olshan employees from the workers to the supervisors were very courteous, always on time and easy to work with. The office manager, Maria Mejia, was outstanding in assisting with coordinating updated plans with the my house foundation repair/leveling and structural needs. I searched several house foundation companies before I made my decision to go with Olshan.

Great job. Very thorough, professionals all the way.

A Good job

Very well. About 8 years after the repair was completed, Due to a plumbing issue they came back to confirm that the leveling was correct and the same as when they performed the repair.

They gave me an honest opinion of the work I wanted done. I would recommend their company.

The day of the repair I would have given them an A+. About a week after the repair rain washed the fill dirt which was not packed in tightly and we had to hire someone to bring in dirt and pack it better. Other than that they did a good job. They even made a special effort to schedule the work swiftly as time was of the essence for us. Overall a good choice and would hire them again.

Great experience. With some tweaking all my concerns were taken care of.

Excellent, they were professional from start to finish. The salesman explained the process completely before starting and it went exactly as explained. The workers were polite and cleaned up after they were finished. I highly recommend them.

I was very happy with their work

Olshan guys were very nice to work with. Was very fascinating to watch the liftin/leveling process.

I really appreciate David Wells coming out to evaluate my foundation and the need for repair. David was very professional, answered all my questions, and gave me peace of mind about any needed repairs. Moreover, David did not try to give me a hard sell. I was totally impressed by this and believe that Olshan Foundation Repair is a company that you can really trust. That means a lot in this day and age. I really enjoyed David's visit and learned a lot from our conversation. I will definitely recommend Olshan for foundation repair in the future.

They did a very good job. They were on time.

We've all heard horror stories from other people about the cost of foundation repair.  Granted, it depends on how bad the problem is and what it takes to fix it - but we are 100% pleased with this company.  The entire job was completed in less than 2 days.  This company is fair, honest and totally above board.  The guys who did all of the work were so nice and worked like crazy!  They don't waste time and any "clean up" is done perfectly!  Both my husband and myself were speechless when we were quoted the final price - we expected at least 4 times that much!  Can't say enough good things about this company!  If you need foundation repair, you don't have to think twice about Olshan!  They are a very honest company!  You don't have to worry about being quoted one price and then all of a sudden when they come out you get a different price.  Totally reliable!!!!!!!
 

Good! Our previous foundation work was done by Ocean and it was under lifetime warranty. Ocean has been very responsive to our requests to come out and monitor the foundation. There's been no charge for any of that and they have made several adjustments as the drought conditions have caused some soil fluctuations. We really feel like they have dealt with that with a lot of integrity and they've been as prompt as they can on giving us circumstances. There are a lot of people with foundation problems in our town. I think they've been awesome.

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WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING MORE BIDS FROM FOUINDATION REPAIR COMPANIES TO FINALLY FIX OUR ISSUES.

Be very careful!!

Ask lots of questions before you sign and before you use their load partner.
Ask and know exactly what work they will do and what work they will NOT do.!!
Ask how the loan works.
Ask if you have any input into releasing the funds, make sure you fully know what they mean as to what is complete
The Job site is still a mess. i have mud all over house and walls.. This is inside the house.
Bottles were left behind and the leftover concrete wash out was thick killed my grass and was left behind
The concrete where they filled in my front entry is cracked and this is just days after they left. This is job done, i have not had any walk-thru and I have been trying to get them out to the house for nearly two weeks.
The thing I am most concerned and worried is that the loan company already fully released all of the funds, I had no say so.!?!

In 2004 my home's foundation was adjusted by Olshan. They lifted up the house, inserted steel shims, and corrected the house's imbalance. By 2013 the foundation had shifted slightly again (as it does in Austin), but basically things were still fine. In retrospect I wish I'd hired Centex instead for one major reason: Olshan is less expert with pier and beam foundations than with slab foundations, and the company changed hands sometime in the last few years. When I was selling the house last summer, the home inspection revealed some problems with the home's foundation and I called Olshan to clarify what they'd done back in 2004. I wanted to make sure that nothing they'd done was out of code or revealed shoddy methods or materials. They were extremely defensive and cagey on the phone; the secretary told me she couldn't send me copies of the reports they'd done for my house until she'd talked to the legal department; one person after another went out of their way to remind me that the company's ownership had changed and they weren't liable for anything done incorrectly (even though the name of the company was the same, the guy who'd done my work was still there, and they had all the files on the previous work...?); and it took days for me to get a clear sense even of what work had been done on my house. In the end I was persuaded that they'd done everything correctly. But the extreme defensiveness, anxiety about litigation, and unwillingness at first to send me records of the work they did on my house makes me quite sure I would not use them again. Let me repeat that I'm certain, now, that their work was just fine. My hesitation comes solely from my most recent encounter with them.

Absolute nightmare.  The foundation was leveled in 2001.  Within five
years cracks began to appear in the living room and bed room.  Came out
to adjust and make repairs without even bothering to measure the
elevations of the floor before doing the work.  Last year major cracks
in the bedroom and living room occurred again/  This time they came out
and measured.  They said the entire house inside and out would have to
be redone.  Tried the blame me, the plumbing and everyone but themselves
for the problem.  There plumbers came out and checked for leeks in the
pluming.  when none were found I never herd from them again.  I would
not use them again.

I am going to be having an on-going relationship with them; I think they are going to come by every 6 months to measure to see what my slab is doing. They only did repair on part of the house so I have decided that if I need additional foundation repair that is not under their warranty I would go with a different company; but not necessarily because of this company -- it is because of the system they use for foundation repair. It does not go all the way down to the bedrock and I would chose something that does because I feel like it would be more stable.

Olshan's  Plumbing bad experience.
 I cannot say a good word about Olshan Plumbing. Contacted Home Depot to install a water heater in my business. Buck's plumbing was contracted by Olshan (Home Depot Contractor). The quote given was reasonable until after installation. They charged me $460.00 for 40 feet of drain pipe. Home Depot sells this for $1.97 for a 10 foot section. Lets assume with a couple of fittings this should cost less than $20.00. I realize they need to mark this up lets assume $50.00 on the high side. This surprise charge was not part of the original quote.
Olshan's contractor obtained the wrong permit and took over 2 weeks and several calls to get it resolved. 
Another item was the poor communication. After complaining to Olshan, they called  Plumbing contractor while I was on hold, I was promised a call from the plumber and am still waiting for it 2 months later. I sent Olshan Pluming a complaint letter and have not recieved a reply.
STAY AWAY FROM OLSHAN PLUMBING ....BAD NEWS

The price was reasonable. I was happy with their work.

We have had to re-pier our house (2012)  in the same areas that were previously repaired by Olshan in 2008.  We have discovered that the piers used by Olshan apparently do not go deep enough because of our area's rocky soil. These piers apparently work great in sandier soils).   Also in working with our new company, we see in hindsight, just how unprofessional that Olshan's work was done.  We were told by Olshan that the work would take about 3 days, but it was completed in one day, which means that quality was probably not a top priority.  At the time, this didn't register with us.  But seeing how the new company measured frequently and had a professional engineer in attendance and how they kept us informed of the procedures, really makes Olshan look unprofessional. 
When we discovered that the same areas of our home that was repaired by Olshan previously, now needed to be done again in 2011-12, we did not want to go back to Olshan or go into dispute with them, so we chose another company.