Home Additions & Second-Story Additions in Houston, TX
Engineering and licensed construction for room additions and second-story additions, sized to what your existing foundation and framing can actually support.
Adding a second story or a ground-floor addition changes the load on everything beneath it: the framing, the foundation, sometimes the soil itself. We start by engineering the load path from the new construction down to the foundation, then size the framing and footings to match.
Because we're licensed and insured to build as well as design, we can carry the addition through construction ourselves, from the structural work through completion, rather than handing our own calculations to a separate contractor.
This is also where a lot of older Houston homes run into trouble. A foundation built for a single-story house wasn't engineered for a second floor, and confirming it can take the new load, or reinforcing it so it can, is the first real step before any addition begins.
- ▸Planning a second-story addition on a single-story home
- ▸Adding a room or expanding your home's footprint
- ▸Your existing foundation's original design is unknown or unclear
- ▸You want one licensed team handling both engineering and construction
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