Foundation raising in Oxnard CA - your house lifted, with new support underneath

Raising a typical single-family house across the US usually costs about $20,000 to $80,000 per job. That's the national market range, not our quote, and coastal jobs and full foundation replacement sit at the top of it. Your written estimate shows what our own price covers.

Check whether each price is lift-only or turnkey. A lift-only price leaves you to arrange the utility disconnects, the new foundation and the reconnection, while a turnkey price puts all of it in one number, so two quotes can describe very different amounts of work. Our estimate is written out so you can see which parts it covers.

Plan on 6 to 12 weeks of construction, with part of that time spent out of the house. You'll need a place to stay while the foundation and utilities are rebuilt, so it helps to line one up once we've set the schedule together.

The City of Oxnard's Building & Engineering Division issues building permits, and California's Contractors State License Board licenses the building moving contractors who raise, lower and move houses and their foundations. Alterations or repairs to the parts of the house that stay in place fall outside that license.

Oxnard requires the lowest floor of a new or substantially improved home to sit at least two feet above the base flood elevation, and in Zone AO that height is measured from the highest ground next to the house. When the work is done, a registered engineer or surveyor certifies the floor's height and a city building inspector verifies it.

Often not, because Oxnard exempts improvements to existing single-family homes from a coastal development permit, with a zone clearance where appropriate. Homes on a beach, in wetlands or seaward of the mean high tide line, and work with environmental risk, don't get that exemption, so we ask the city first when it's unclear.