Our crews run out of one shop on West 16th Street in Indianapolis. Everything inside a 75-mile drive of that door is our territory: city, suburb, county seat and gravel road alike. Find your town below, or type your ZIP and we’ll tell you straight away.
Enter a ZIP code or town name. No form, no email. You get an answer right here.
A wet basement in Carmel and a wet basement in Bloomington are rarely the same job. What is under the slab decides how water reaches your foundation, how the soil pushes on it, and which repair actually holds. This is the first thing our inspector reads about your address before he pulls up.
Clay holds water and swells when it is wet, then shrinks back as it dries. That seasonal push and pull against foundation walls is the single most common reason we get called out here. Because the ground is flat, water also has nowhere obvious to go: it soaks into the backfill beside your foundation and stays there, building pressure against block and poured walls alike.
The problem here is usually less about soil pressure and more about volume: after a wet stretch, groundwater arrives faster than it can leave. Sandy backfill drains freely, which sounds like good news until you realize it delivers water straight to the foundation. Sump capacity, discharge routing and a properly bedded drain line matter more in this ground than almost anywhere else we work.
Bedrock often sits close to the surface here, which changes how water behaves around a foundation. Drainage problems tend to arrive suddenly: a basement that has been dry for years takes on water in a single storm because a subsurface path opened or shifted. That is why the durable fix is almost always water management and structural correction together, aimed at the source behind the crack where the water showed up.
On a hillside lot, water does not spread out. It runs, and it runs toward whatever is downhill of it. The same rain that sheds harmlessly off one wall can pool against another. Add the slow downhill creep of soil on a slope and you get the pattern we see most often here: one wall under real pressure while the rest of the foundation looks fine.
Each town has its own page with the ZIP codes we cover, the ground conditions there, and the repairs we do most. Find your town, or type it into the checker above.
Possibly. The 75-mile line around our Indianapolis shop is a flexible guide, and for larger projects we go further. Call with your address, and if we genuinely can't help we'll tell you who can.
No. The inspection is free everywhere we go, and a house an hour out pays the same price as one ten minutes from the shop. The call costs you nothing either.
Type your ZIP into the checker at the top of this page and it tells you straight away. You can also find your town in the county list and open its own page. Or call us and ask.
What's under the slab decides how water reaches your foundation and how the soil pushes on it. Central Indiana has four main kinds of ground, and each one tends to cause different problems. Our inspector reads that first, and each town page describes the ground there.
Yes. City, suburb, county seat and gravel road all count, as long as you're inside our area around the Indianapolis shop. The free inspection and the written price work the same way out there.
Some towns span two counties, and those show up under both in our list. Start with the town on your mailing address, or check your ZIP in the box above. Either way the inspection is free and the call costs you nothing.
Michaelis Foundation Solutions, 1102 W 16th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Call 317-251-1935.
The 75-mile line is a flexible guide. For larger projects we go further, and if we genuinely can’t help we’ll tell you who can. Either way the call costs you nothing.
