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Bergheim is German for "home in the hills," a name Andreas Engel gave the place when the post office moved there in 1901. It sits on SH-46 about ten miles northeast of Boerne in southeastern Kendall County, near FM 3351. The homes around it are a mix of old ranch houses, rural homes on acreage, and newer builds on land that used to be pasture.
Engel built a cotton gin here in 1900, and the store he and his wife opened in 1903 ran as the Bergheim General Store until 2018, one of the longest-running general stores in Kendall County. The area has stayed mostly rural. That means many properties have long gravel drives, outbuildings, and no curbs or storm drains, so water goes wherever the land sends it. That is a big factor in how foundations here behave.
On acreage, the house is often the only hard surface for a long way, and it ends up in the path of sheet runoff during a heavy rain. Things to watch for on a Bergheim property:
For raised floors, pier and beam repair resets or adds support and replaces damaged wood. For slab homes, slab foundation repair uses piers under the sections that are moving. On a rural lot, the drainage piece often means swales and berms that turn runoff around the house, not just gutters. We size that to the actual flow you get, which you can usually see in the erosion patterns on the ground.
If you are planning to build on raw land, the best foundation decision you can make happens before the slab is poured: get a soil report and a foundation engineered for it. If you already own a newer home here that is showing early movement, document it with photos and dates, and see our guide to signs you need foundation repair to judge how serious it is.
Yes. Bergheim, Waterstone, and the SH-46 corridor toward Bulverde are all part of our service area, and the inspection is free.
It can if the drain field or a leaking line is close to the house and keeps the soil wetter on one side. It is not common, but it is worth ruling out when movement is concentrated in one area.
Neither is better in every case. An existing pier-and-beam house is usually repaired as pier and beam, since its advantage is that the supports can be adjusted later.
Start by watching where water goes in a heavy rain. Gutters with long downspout extensions, a shallow swale on the uphill side to turn runoff around the house, and soil sloped away from the foundation for the first several feet handle most cases. Our drainage tips guide goes through each step.
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