Residential Services

Typical Services provide to contractors, homeowners, & realtors:

    On unimproved lots, typically four ten-foot deep soil borings are conducted within the proposed home foot-print to provide a soil boring description of the soils encountered and pass professional opinion on the suitability of the soils for construction of the home. 
    
Flood Elevation Determination of the most probable 100-year Base Flood Elevation for the parcel the proposed home is to be constructed on. 

    Soil compaction testing on any fill material brought to the home foot-print area to build up the pad, fill material brought into the footer areas, and/or fill placed within a block-stem wall foundation or on a monolithic slab. 

    Testing on natural, in-place soils to determine if "loose" conditions are presence in regards to the soils resistance to loading

Typical items of concern:

    Shallow groundwater in upper five-feet of boring(s). 
    Voids or very soft conditions encountered within the limits of the boring(s). 
    Buried organic material or heavy anthropogenic debris. 
    Fat clay or Elastic Silt, locally called "Pipe Clay"

Existing Structures:

    S3 provides soil testing and observation reports on structures that may have foundation problems such as differential settlement or movement resulting in the cracking or movement of the foundation, concrete block or the brick veneer. Typically, cracking and movement within the foundation is found to be directly related to the presence of buried organic material, buried anthropogenic material, fat clay or elastic silt (pipe clay), or loose fill soils which were not properly compacted during construction/installation. If the testing reveals issues related to the existing soils, S3 can provide a solution/design to offset the problematic soil conditions. S3 works with foundation system companies to provide the installation of the designed foundation system. 

    Observation letters and geotechnical investigations on existing homes/structures in which question has been raised regarding the presence of cracking above doorways/windows, warped flooring, cracked floor slab, cracked foundation block/stucco, or cracked brick walls.

Drainage Studies:

    S3 provides drainage studies on projects ranging from individual berm, swale, or ditch studies for homes to localized basin studies for stormwater models and calculations.

Additional Services Provided:

    Slope Stability Analysis and Design 
    Retaining Wall Soils Analysis and Design