Pensacola Foundation Co. serves Escambia and Santa Rosa counties with no travel charge. Assessments including probing and sounding for washout cavities are free throughout, and the written scope is yours whether or not you hire us.
Four situations, not two counties
Shoreline and waterfront
Groundwater near the surface, surge that arrives at the building rather than passing at a distance, and shoreline structures whose condition matters to the house behind them. On a barrier island the landform itself is moving sand, and elevated pile construction changes the assessment from cavities to scour.
Low ground and bay edge
Very little vertical distance between the underside of a slab and saturated ground. Water leaving after a surge event removes material as readily as water arriving, and on older stock the losses have accumulated across decades of storms.
New development
Grading, roofs and pavement collect and concentrate water that used to spread across open land. The properties affected are frequently not the new ones but the older ones downhill, and the useful question is what changed upslope.
Rural and river
Long overland flow across acreage with little or no storm infrastructure, so where water goes is entirely a function of the land. At Milton there is real elevation between the bluff and the Blackwater bottoms, and the two behave differently.
What changes between them
| Situation | What we check first | Common finding |
|---|---|---|
| Waterfront | Shoreline structure and groundwater level | Material escaping at a failing bulkhead |
| Barrier island, elevated | Scour around pile bases | Sand level changes after storms |
| Low ground | Slab edge gaps and hollow areas | Loss on the drainage side after surge |
| Below new development | Where water now enters the lot | A channel that did not exist a decade ago |
| Acreage | Overland flow path across the property | Concentration well upstream of the house |
The same free assessment everywhere
Probing and sounding for cavities, an exterior walk following where water concentrates, and a written scope separating support from fill with an assumed volume and an overage rate. See what the work costs or book a visit.
Service area questions
Do you charge travel to Century or Perdido Key?
No. The assessment is free everywhere we work and the quote prices the job rather than the drive. Travel has to be absorbed somewhere by any company, so where a competing number looks high for an outlying address, asking where the mileage sits is fair.
Why group by water rather than by county?
Because water is the mechanism. A waterfront lot in Gulf Breeze and one on Perdido Key face the same processes; a rural lot at Molino and one at Century face a different set. County lines do not track any of it.
My property does not fit any of these neatly.
Plenty do not, and the groups describe what is common rather than universal. Tell us where water enters your lot and where it leaves, and that places you far better than an address does.
Book a free Pensacola foundation assessment
The most useful thing you can tell us is when it started, and whether anything happened around then — a named storm, a week of hard rain, a broken line, a neighbour regrading their lot. On sand, damage follows events rather than seasons, so a date is worth more here than a description. We reply the same working day.