Mortar that matches a 1920s wall
Our own crews set the piers and repair the brick, which matters on Tudor and Georgian brick you cannot easily match.
Foundation and Leaning Chimney Repair in Atlanta, GA
Atlanta's regraded hillsides and creek-soaked lots let old footings drop and tall brick chimneys tip, and Anglin's sets both back on steel piers.
A century of cut and fill
Foundation repair in Atlanta for Buckhead and intown brick on cut-and-fill ground
Anglin's works on the Atlanta houses that carry the most history: 1910s to 1940s brick and stone in Buckhead's garden suburbs, and streetcar-era homes closer in. We pier the footing that moved, bring the house back, and the same crew repairs the brick.
Estimates are free. Call 770-422-2924, and after hours a live answering service takes the call.
After the storm comes through
What a hard Atlanta rain shows about footings
The rain quits and you go out to look. Water has cut a channel down the low side of the house, and up on the wall a crack steps through three or four courses of brick.
Old brick cracks on its own sometimes. What matters is whether the inside has started to match it, with a door that drags or a floor you can feel sloping.
Four generations, never a franchise
Why Atlanta picks a Marietta family over franchises
Three of the four biggest foundation repair companies in Atlanta are franchises. Anglin's has been family-owned since Olin L. Anglin started it in 1930.
Pier depth is never extra on filled lots
Nobody knows how far a century of fill runs until the pier goes down. Going deeper never raises your price.
A veneer check before any pier count
Cracked brick on an older intown house can be loose veneer, not a settling footing, and we tell you when that is all.
Paperwork that survives a closing
Two-page contract, the quoted price is the price you pay, and our piers carry a lifetime warranty your buyer inherits.
Urban land instead of soil
What moves foundations under Buckhead and intown Atlanta
At sample points in Garden Hills, near Chastain Park and in Virginia-Highland, the USDA survey maps "Urban land" rather than native soil. The Cecil and Pacolet clays here are rated low for shrink-swell, so what moves a footing is cut, fill and water, not swelling ground. Our foundation repair starts by finding which one moved your house.
Peachtree, Nancy and Tanyard Creek lots
Peachtree Creek hit a 23-foot stage in the September 2009 flood, and Nancy Creek damaged the Peachtree Dunwoody Road bridge in that same storm. Yards sloping toward those creeks, or toward Tanyard Creek behind Collier Hills, hold water against the downhill footing.
Hillside houses above Piedmont Park
A sample point just north of Piedmont Park maps as Urban land mixed with moderately eroded Cecil clay, on 2 to 10 percent slopes. A downhill corner that collects runoff is a common place for settling to show up.
What people say when they call
- "Cracking in his foundation. Small hairline cracks"
- "bricks on the front and side of the home that are cracking"
- "Crack in front of house"
Heavy stacks on sloped lots
Why tall chimneys lean on Atlanta's old brick
Peachtree Heights Park was built out between 1910 and 1940, and its Tudor, Georgian and Norman houses carry large masonry chimneys on sloped lots. A stack that heavy starts to tip once the ground under its footing softens.
The whole stack tips away from the wall
The footing settled. That one needs piers.
It leans in only above the roofline
The mason rested that upper brick on plywood and rafters, which is a different repair.
For a settled footing we set steel push piers and push the stack back while the piers lift, then anchor it to the house and repair the joints. Ask about leaning chimney repair before pricing a rebuild, and plan on your roofer for the flashing.
More ways we can help
Atlanta brick walls, retaining walls and porches
The other structural repairs Atlanta's old brick and sloped lots tend to need.
Brick wall repair
Stair-step cracks in Colonial Revival and Tudor veneer usually trace to broken wall ties. Anchors set through the mortar pin the wall back.
Retaining wall repair
Walls holding back slopes toward Peachtree or Tanyard Creek get anchored once they start to lean. We do not build new ones.
Porch column repair
Porch columns on Virginia-Highland's 1910s to 1930s bungalows can drop at the base and separate from the beam above.
Sagging and uneven floors
About one in six Atlanta homes predates 1950, and a floor rolling toward the middle usually means a support settled underneath.
Garden suburbs and streetcar blocks
Atlanta's garden suburbs, streetcar blocks and building waves
Atlanta's older neighborhoods north of I-20 were built in waves, and each wave left a different kind of house behind.
Buckhead estates and early intown suburbs
Peachtree Heights Park grew on Collier estate land bought in 1910, Brookwood Hills began in the early 1920s, and Garden Hills was founded in 1925. Inman Park was Atlanta's first planned suburb, Ansley Park went up from 1905 to 1908, and Virginia-Highland filled in with bungalows through the 1930s.
Postwar ranches and later infill
About a quarter of Atlanta's homes went up between 1950 and 1979, and more than a third from 2000 to 2019. Those newer houses sit on graded infill, where settling shows up as a sagging garage lintel or a stoop pulling away.
Trees and pier access
The city's Tree Protection Ordinance, rewritten in 2025, sets a protected tree's critical root zone at one foot of radius per inch of trunk diameter. That matters when a pier goes in beside a big oak.
Look up your address
- NOAA gauge for Peachtree Creek at Atlanta: current level and flood stage for the creek along Buckhead's southern edge.
- City of Atlanta GIS Property Info: enter an address to see its zoning and whether it sits in a historic district.
Inside a 1920s brick job
Inside a typical 1920s Atlanta brick repair
A typical version starts when a buyer's inspector writes "structural" beside a crack stepping up the brick next to the chimney, and the closing date is already set.
We check whether the footing moved or the veneer let go, then pier only where the ground failed and straighten the chimney if it followed.
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“Anglin's foundation & Masonry performed work on our tilting chimney, and they were outstanding in all areas. I called them about the problem and within 2 hrs. they were out to scope out the work. The next day they provided two approaches to consider.”
Christopher G.
Tilting chimney scoped within hours
Old brick and closing dates
What Atlanta buyers, sellers and old-house owners ask us
Honest answers before you make a decision.
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Bring a four-generation mason family to your Atlanta house
We're open six days a week, and our answering service takes your details after hours. We'll look at the footings, the brick and the chimney, then put the price on a two-page contract.
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