Foundation Repair in Bondurant

Bondurant at a glance

Bondurant is a city of 7,365 people (2020) in Polk County northeast of Des Moines, nearly doubling from 3,860 in 2010.

What that means for your foundation

With so much recent growth, many Bondurant homes are newer builds on poured basements. Settling around window wells, driveway slabs that sink and soil sloping back toward the walls are common; see slab and concrete lifting. Sod laid over settled backfill often ends up sloping toward the house within a few years.

Open ground

Homes on former farmland face wind-driven rain and runoff from open fields. Window wells on the windward side fill with rain during spring storms and need covers and drains.

A railroad town

Alexander C. Bondurant was the area's first settler in 1857, and the town was founded in 1884. The Chicago Great Western Railway built a station here in 1892, and Bondurant incorporated on December 23, 1897. In July 2018 an EF2 tornado struck the city and lifted the second floor off one house. After severe storms, a check of the foundation and drainage is sensible; see foundation inspections. Families moving into the newer neighborhoods sometimes see their first sump pump cycle during a spring storm, and it helps to know where the discharge line exits before that day comes.