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Permits for foundation repair in Frisco

Foundation repair in Frisco needs a building permit, and the city asks for an engineer's stamp twice: before the work and after it. The company normally handles the filing. You should still know what is supposed to happen.

City of Frisco Building Inspections

The four steps

  1. 1

    Apply online

    The application is the Residential Building Permit Application, type Other Home Improvements, filed through the city's Frisco Plans and Permits site.

  2. 2

    Attach two documents

    A stamped engineer letter and stamped pier drawings, both as PDFs. Stamped means sealed by a licensed professional engineer.

  3. 3

    Do the work

    The repair is carried out to those drawings once the permit is issued. Some subdivisions also need approval from the homeowners association.

  4. 4

    Send the report

    When the work is finished the engineer must provide an inspection report, which is emailed to Building Inspections.

Where this comes from

These requirements are set out under Foundation Repair on the city's Residential Alteration Submittal Requirements sheet, which also gives the Building Inspections email address for questions. Rules change, so open the current sheet before the job starts.

Frisco also expects contractors to register with Building Inspections before working in the city. The city's eTRAKiT site lets you search registered contractors and look up permits.

Your part

What to ask the company

  • Who files the permit, you or them? Get it in the contract.
  • Which engineer is writing the letter and drawings, and is the fee included?
  • Has my HOA been asked, if it needs to be?
  • Will I get a copy of the permit before work starts?
  • Will I get a copy of the engineer's completion report?
  • If plumbing under the slab has to be repaired afterwards, who arranges that permit?

Keep every one of those papers. The Texas seller's disclosure notice asks about previous structural repair and about repairs made without necessary permits, so a clean file is worth having when you sell. See buying or selling a house with a foundation problem.

Not in Frisco?

Neighboring cities set their own rules

Prosper
The foundation company must be registered with the Town and take out the permit, with a sealed design up front and a second sealed letter at inspection. Prosper page.
The Colony
Drawings and reports sealed by a Texas engineer, showing every pier, sent to the city as PDFs. The Colony page.
Carrollton
Every foundation repair needs a permit, whatever its value. Carrollton page.
Richardson
A permit is required once a repair reaches four piers. Richardson page.

Foundation repair in Frisco and nearby

Describe the problem, book the inspection

This number is for foundation repair on houses. Say where the cracks are, which doors stick and how long it has been going on. If part of the house shifted all at once, there is a gas smell, or brickwork seems about to come down, clear the house and dial 911 or the gas utility before anything else.

Ready to have someone look at it?

Phone and say what you have noticed. The foundation repair company on the other end is independent of this site and takes on houses in your part of Collin or Denton County. Ask it for a time to come and inspect.

Call (972) 430-3959

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