If you live in Colorado Springs and a crack showed up after a dry winter, the first hour is the same as anywhere else: mark the crack, check the doors, then decide who should look. What to do when the house is cracking or settling is that order.
The local part is the bedrock. Colorado Geological Survey map MS-32 outlines areas of expansive, steeply dipping bedrock in the western part of the city and says engineered facilities there may be subjected to destructive, differential ground heave. The map is general. It is not a report on your lot. When is a foundation crack serious? is the short version.
Permits for the repair
A regional permit is not a bid. Pikes Peak Regional Building Department issues the permit and licenses building contractors for Colorado Springs. Ask which code edition the permit will use. How to choose a foundation contractor is the checklist.
What it costs here
We do not print a Colorado Springs crew price, because we do not have a sourced local list to show you. Ask the company for a written scope.
The local record for Colorado Springs
What it costs
This page does not add a Colorado Springs crew price because no sourced local fee schedule for foundation work was available.
Permits and registration
Pikes Peak Regional Building Department licenses contractors who do permittable work in Colorado Springs, and permits for that work are pulled there. A permit is not a soils report.
Climate
The climate figures are 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals for Colorado Springs, station USW00093037, from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. January mean temperature is 31.7 F and January precipitation is 0.29 inches. July mean temperature is 72.4 F and July precipitation is 3.12 inches. December mean temperature is 31.7 F and December precipitation is 0.23 inches. The mean of the twelve monthly mean temperatures is 50.4 F. The twelve monthly precipitation normals sum to 15.91 inches. Dry winters and wetter summers are when swelling clay often moves.
About Colorado Springs
Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates put Colorado Springs city, Colorado at 494,743 on July 1, 2025. The 2020-2024 American Community Survey puts median household income, in 2024 dollars, at $84,818, the poverty rate at 9.0 percent, and the median value of owner-occupied homes at $452,600. Those figures describe the city. They are not a repair price. Colorado Geological Survey map MS-32 outlines areas of expansive, steeply dipping bedrock on the west side of the city and says engineered facilities there may see differential heave.
Sources
- City of Colorado Springs: Business Navigator FAQs, PPRBD licenses and permits
- Colorado Geological Survey MS-32, heaving bedrock map
- Colorado Geological Survey SP-43, swelling soils guide
- Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates, Colorado
- Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 5-year, B19013 median household income, Colorado Springs city, Colorado
- Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 5-year, B17001 poverty status, Colorado Springs city, Colorado
- Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 5-year, B25077 median home value, Colorado Springs city, Colorado
- NOAA station USW00093037, Colorado Springs
- NOAA 1991-2020 monthly normals for USW00093037
Who wrote this page
- Written by
- Footing Fix editorial staff. Who runs this site
- Licensed professional
- None. No licensed structural engineer or foundation contractor has checked this page.
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