Lifetime · Transferable · On the piers
A lifetime transferable foundation repair warranty, in plain English.
Every pier we set, steel or hybrid, is warranted for the life of the structure and transfers with the house at no fee. It covers the piers and the structure they carry, not the paint. Here is what that buys you, what it leaves to you, and what a claim looks like from the first phone call.
The short version
What the warranty covers and what it leaves out.
Covered
- ✓Re-settlement at any warranted pier location. If a section carried by our steel or hybrid piers drops again, we re-level it on the original piers.
- ✓Parts and labor for the adjustment, re-excavation of the pier included. No charge for the work itself.
- ✓Transfer to every later owner of the same structure, with no transfer fee, for as long as the structure stands.
- ✓Your documentation package. Pier map, depths, pressures, and the before and after elevations recorded the day the lift finished.
- ✓The yearly performance follow-up inspection, where we re-shoot those elevations against the baseline and walk the drainage with you.
Not covered
- ✕Cosmetic finishes. Drywall patching, paint, tile, and trim after an adjustment or a re-level are the owner's scope.
- ✕New movement in an area that was never piered. Those boundaries are drawn on your plan before the first shovel goes in.
- ✕Damage from a plumbing leak that was left unrepaired after it was found.
- ✕Movement driven by drainage or grading conditions we flagged in writing that were never addressed.
- ✕Heave, meaning upward swelling, from a new water source at or near the slab such as a leak, pooling, or a change in irrigation.
- ✕Cash refunds, incidental damages, and consequential damages. The remedy is a re-level of the affected piers.
Why it is written on the piers
The warranty follows the structure, not the finishes.
A foundation warranty is worth reading for one thing above all, which is what the company promises to come back and do. Ours promises the lift. If a section of your home carried by Motmot steel piers or hybrid piers settles again, we re-excavate those piers and bring that section back to the elevation we documented when the crew finished. Parts and labor are on us, for as long as the structure stands.
What we do not promise is your drywall. A lift moves a house, and a house that moves shows it in the paint, the tape joints, and sometimes the tile. That cosmetic repair is the owner's scope, and it is written that way in the agreement because pretending otherwise would be a promise nobody could keep twice. The same logic cuts the other way in your favor. We never quietly fold cosmetic exclusions into the structural coverage either, so a covered re-level stays free.
Piers are also the only thing we install today. Motmot sets steel and hybrid piers, at $600 to $1,000 per pier depending on depth and access, and concrete piers were discontinued in August 2026. Every warranty we write now is on steel or hybrid pier work, and the coverage reads the same across both. The method changes with the soil and the structure. The promise does not. If you want the engineering behind that choice, read what the engineering says about steel and concrete piers, and how long a foundation repair lasts.
Making a claim
What happens after you call us about new movement.
Nothing here depends on goodwill. Each step produces a number that either matches your baseline or does not.
Call when something changes
A door starts to stick, a crack reopens, a floor reads off. The agreement asks you to report new movement within 30 days of noticing it, while the change is still small enough to measure cleanly.
An inspector re-shoots the elevations
An ICC-certified inspector takes a fresh floor-elevation survey and lays it over the baseline in your file. The question of whether a warranted section moved gets answered by two sets of readings.
The dispatch fee comes back on a covered claim
A $150 fee applies to send a technician out on a warranty claim, and it is refunded in full when the claim turns out to be covered. A covered claim costs you nothing.
We re-level on the original piers
If a pier we set has let that section settle, the crew re-excavates, lifts it back to the documented elevation, and backfills. Parts and labor are ours.
Finishes go back to the owner
Patching drywall and repainting after an adjustment belong to you, because the warranty is on the structure. We say that before the work starts rather than after.
The part that keeps a claim simple
We come back every year and re-shoot the elevations.
On the day a lift finishes, we record a full set of floor elevations. That sheet is the baseline. Once a year we return to completed jobs for a performance follow-up inspection, take the readings again, compare them against that baseline, and walk the drainage while we are there. Movement that shows up as a tenth of an inch gets handled as a tenth of an inch. Nobody has to argue about what the house used to look like, because it was written down. See what a visit covers in our annual foundation performance inspection.
Your side of the deal
What puts coverage at risk.
Every item below is something you control, and every one of them is listed in plain language in the agreement rather than buried.
- ›An under-slab or supply-line leak left unrepaired after it is found
- ›Gutters and downspouts that are not carrying rainwater at least six feet from the foundation
- ›Regrading that sends water back toward the slab, or drainage recommendations we put in writing that stay undone
- ›Additions, remodeling, or changes to load-bearing walls made without our prior written approval
- ›Waiting more than 30 days to report new movement, which lets damage compound before anyone can measure it
Keep your pier map and elevation sheets with the house documents. We hold copies too, and they are the baseline for any future claim as well as a real asset at resale. If we ever disagree about a claim, the agreement routes it to mediation first and to binding arbitration under Texas law if mediation does not settle it. Both sides give up the right to go to court, and the prevailing party recovers reasonable fees and arbitration costs. Worth reading before you sign, which is why the whole document is published clause by clause.
The paperwork itself
Read the full warranty agreement with every term explained.
The complete document, each clause followed by a plain-English note on why it exists and what it asks of you. Print-ready, so open it and choose “Download as PDF.”
Why a Texas warranty runs for the life of the structure
Burleson clay never stops cycling.
Common across the Blackland Prairie, Burleson is a deep clay whose USDA description notes cracks 1 to 4 inches wide opening to 40 inches deep, returning for 90 to 150 days every single year.
This ground does not settle once and finish. It re-cracks every dry season for as long as the house stands, which is the reason a fixed-term warranty on Texas clay is the wrong shape. The coverage has to outlast the soil cycle, so it runs for the life of the structure and moves to the next owner. The mechanics are in Texas clay soil, explained, and the maintenance side is in foundation watering.
Read the Burleson series at USDA →Different warranty question
Three warranty situations that have their own page.
The company that repaired your home is gone. No contractor can legally honor another company's signed contract, so that page covers what a practical takeover looks like, starting with a free re-inspection.
You are selling and need the warranty to follow the house. The form, the 60-day window, and how buyers and their lenders read a transferable foundation warranty in Texas.
You are wondering whether a home warranty plan pays for foundation repair. Third-party home warranty products are a different animal from a contractor warranty, and that page walks through what those policies actually pay.
Straight answers
Warranty questions, answered straight.
From real jobs and inspections
The work the lifetime warranty stands behind.
The warranty conversation only matters if the measurements say a repair makes sense in the first place. Inspections are free, and about a third of them end with no repair needed and a drainage plan instead. Start with a free foundation inspection, see how the repair itself runs, or read what foundation repair costs in San Antonio. Holding a competing bid whose warranty terms are doing most of the selling? A free second opinion reads the fine print with you.
Repair once. Document it. Hand it to the next owner.
Start with a free inspection and a full elevation survey. The warranty is only as good as the baseline it is measured against, and that baseline starts on day one.
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- 60–90 minutes on site, including the elevation survey
- Written summary whether or not repair is needed
- No-pressure pricing with firm numbers, no same-day-only discounts