Foundation Inspection in Irving, TX

Irving by the Numbers

Method: Census counts are estimates with published margins of error; weather is the 1991 to 2020 NOAA normal for the station named in the climate section.

Who Reads the Report on a Rented Irving House?

Of Irving's occupied homes, 58,148 are rented and 36,104 are owned. The tenant notices the crack. The landlord or property manager pays, and an insurer or agent may read the result. The HGS report is written for that chain, with findings stated once and in plain words.

Irving's median home dates from 1986, and 26,046 homes came from the 1960s and 1970s alone. That is a large number of houses old enough to have had one round of repairs and a second round of drainage changes around the house.

The Census also counts 1,728 manufactured homes, 1.7% of housing units, and 255,036 residents in all. In a city this size the inspection request rarely comes from the same kind of household twice.

What Does the Airport Rain Record Say About an Irving House Built in the 1970s?

The nearest published record for Irving is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, which gives 37.0 inches of rain in a normal year, with May the wettest month at 4.78 inches. A house built in 1975 has been through more than forty of those years, and the engineer looks at the drainage around it as it is now.

What Does Dallas County's Shrink-Swell Rating Add for Irving Landlords and Agents?

Dallas County is rated 63.9 percent high or very high shrink-swell by the USDA soil survey, and 44.4 percent of rated acres are in the very high class. Houston Black (67,795 acres), Trinity and Heiden lead the list. For an agent or landlord the number is background: it says the clay is active on average, and the report says what this house shows.

The Drought Monitor shows 61 of 262 weeks since October 12, 2021 with some of Dallas County in severe drought or worse, and 68.52 percent in that class on the map dated October 13, 2026. Whatever the county map shows, the engineer records what is in this house.

County detail, with the named soils and the weekly drought record: Dallas County soil and drought data.

What Is Different About Working With Landlords and Agents?

Each report is complete on its own, so a property manager can pass it to an owner untouched. An agent can file it with the listing. It gives the observed conditions, the permitting that would apply to indicated repair work, and the drainage items, in that order.

The older Irving homes are the more likely to have been altered by a prior owner, and a rental changes hands often enough that the history is thin. The report starts from what the engineer can see on the day and does not guess at what no one wrote down.

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What Can an Agent or Landlord Do With an Irving Report?

Hand it to whoever has to decide. Nobody reading it is being sold work, because it carries no repair price and the firm repairs nothing. Details are on the foundation inspection page, and requests start at the request form.

More From HGS Engineering

• Foundation Inspection: Foundation repair inspections by a licensed engineer.
• Structural Design: Single-family, multi-family and commercial: foundations, framing, retaining walls and plot plans.
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