[KY] Serving Elkton · Todd County Est. 2009

Foundation repair
in Elkton, KY

Ground Up Foundation Repair has served Elkton homeowners since 2009. Local Todd County crews, in-depth knowledge of the soil and climate conditions that affect foundations in this area, and a lifetime transferable warranty on every piered section.

Schedule Free Inspection (615) 624-1027

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Murfreesboro office

3617 Shelbyville Hwy

Murfreesboro, TN 37127

Phone

(615) 880-6449

Getting to you

About 105 minutes from the office, 84 miles.

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About Elkton

Elkton in numbers

Todd County holds Elkton, in Kentucky. Elkton counts roughly 804 households and about 1,953 residents. The town runs 66 percent owner occupied, with 684 detached single family homes in the mix.

Our Murfreesboro office is the closest one: 84 miles, about 105 minutes. Across Todd County as a whole there are 3,991 detached single family homes, and 74 percent of occupied housing is owner occupied. That is about 16 percent of every housing unit in Todd County. The county around it counts about 12,330 residents across 5,160 housing units. The median home was finished in 1976, with more of the stock built in the 1970s than in any other decade, 193 homes. Survey figures show a median home value of $98,400 and a median household income of $39,922. 534 of those homes are lived in by their owners and 270 are rented. About 564 homes, 70 percent of the stock, predate 1980 and the drainage standards that came with it.

Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.

What we fix

Foundation problems we see in Elkton

Wet Basement Walls

Of the housing here, 564 homes predate 1980, with the biggest block of it going up in the 1970s. Original drainage gets a close look on those.

What this looks like

Sagging or Uneven Floors

The typical Elkton house dates to 1976, old enough that the ground under it has been through every wet spring and dry summer since.

What this looks like

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Local conditions

Why foundations move in Elkton

Rain, drought and the calendar

Southern Kentucky soils run a less aggressive shrink swell cycle than Middle Tennessee clay, with soil profiles that change from one county to the next.

The age of the housing

The typical house dates to 1976, and the single biggest block of the stock, 193 homes, went up in the 1970s. The 564 homes finished before 1980 are the ones where original drainage gets the closest look. Mortgages sit on 40 percent of the owner occupied homes in Elkton.

The ZIP code inside Elkton: 42220.

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