Colorado Slope, Soil and Geologic Hazard Lawyers

Colorado's terrain presents significant challenges to builders and developers. Volatile soils and unstable sloping lands can create issues that must be properly addressed before building. Generally though, the potential problems are foreseeable, and builders have well-accepted techniques available to address these matters. When designers and builders do not do their jobs properly though, homeowners may suffer the consequences with cracked foundations or other building problems.

Sullan², Sandgrund, Perczak & Nuss P.C. is one of Colorado's leading construction defect litigation law firms. Our attorneys have represented thousands of Colorado home owners in lawsuits seeking compensation for damage caused by:

• Collapsing soils (soils that collapse when wet)
• Expansive soils (wetted soils that exert thousands of pounds of pressure)
• Landslides
• Rockfalls
• Flooding
• Soil erosion
• Mud slides
• Leaking irrigation ditches

Contact us today to schedule a free, confidential consultation with one of our experienced attorneys. We handle most construction defect matters on a contingency basis. Until we secure financial compensation for you, we receive no attorneys' fees.

Protecting the Rights of Colorado Homeowners

When a home is built, it sits in the middle of nature. The developers must account for surrounding environmental issues; the law gives homeowners protections when developers are negligent in this regard. As a home owner, you are entitled to adequate, timely and full disclosure of the risks associated with the underlying soils and slopes. You are also entitled to disclosure of the various construction techniques employed (or which could have been employed) to deal with these conditions.

If you have not been fully informed of these terrain challenges, or if your builder failed to take the standard precautions to address the underlying geologic hazards, we can help you. We work to effectively protect the rights and interests of Colorado homeowners.

We always advise homeowner associations and individual home owners to attempt work out problems with builders and developers first. But, after you have exhausted every other reasonable avenue to get them to fix the problem, our law firm can step in and provide assistance. Our law firm strongly encourages the use of "Plan B" settlements involving round-table meetings of construction experts in an effort to develop a reasonable repair plan to be funded by those responsible for creating the problems. Homeowner associations and home owners must be careful, however, not to rush prematurely into agreeing to a "Plan B" repair that merely provides "band-aid" repairs following inadequate investigation that will come back to haunt the owner years later.

Contact us today to discuss your concerns related to soil erosion, slope instability, or any other construction defect with an experienced attorney.

Effective October 1, 2007, the firm name changed from Vanatta, Sullan, Sandgrund, Sullan and Smith, P.C. to Sullan², Sandgrund, Perczak & Nuss P.C. Mr. Sandgrund became "Of Counsel" then as well, and Ms. Mari Perczak joined the firm on that date and become a shareholder.

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