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Waterproofing services in Lexington, KY

Start with where the water shows up: the basement floor, a crawlspace, one wall, or the yard outside. Each points at a different fix. Experience matters when diagnosing water problems. We know how to identify the source, recommend the right solution, and properly size the work for your home, without overselling what you don't need or undersizing what it takes to solve the problem.

Basement Waterproofing

Interior and exterior systems that stop the water where it gets in, backed by a lifetime labor warranty and a free written estimate.

Crawlspace Waterproofing

Sealing the crawlspace so the damp under your house stops feeding mold, musty air and cupped floors in the rooms above it.

Drainage Solutions

Move roof and yard water away before it ever reaches the foundation. Frequently the cheapest fix that actually works.

Interior Waterproofing

Handling the water from inside, for when digging up the outside of the house is impractical, too disruptive, or just not needed.

Exterior Waterproofing

Treating the wall from the wet side. More disruptive, more expensive, and the permanent answer when the wall itself is the leak.

Leak Repair

One wall, one window, one crack. Targeted repairs for people who do not need a whole system and should not be sold one.

How the systems work

Two ways to dry a foundation

Most of our work is the interior system. It can go in through any weather, on any lot, without taking a deck, a patio or a driveway apart. Digging the outside of the wall is the right answer on some houses, and when it is, we will tell you.

Interior drainage system A cut-away cross-section through the foundation wall and footing, with six numbered points. The list beneath the drawing describes each one. 1 2 3 4 5 6

Interior drainage system

  1. Groundwater collects against the footing and under the floor. The pressure pushes it through the cold joint where the wall meets the slab, and through any crack it finds.
  2. We break out a channel around the inside of the footing and set perforated drain tile in washed stone, pitched to the pump.
  3. Drainage board up the wall catches seepage coming through the block and carries it down behind the new concrete instead of out onto the floor.
  4. The channel is capped with fresh concrete, flush with the existing slab.
  5. Everything drains to a sealed basin with a half-horsepower cast-iron pump, which is what we set as standard.
  6. The discharge line carries the water above grade and well away from the foundation.
Exterior waterproofing A cut-away cross-section through the foundation wall and footing, with six numbered points. The list beneath the drawing describes each one. DRY 1 2 3 4 5 6

Exterior waterproofing

  1. The wall is excavated down to the top of the footing and cleaned off.
  2. A waterproofing membrane is applied to the outside face, so water is stopped before it ever reaches the block.
  3. Dimpled drainage board holds the backfill off the membrane and gives the water a clear path down.
  4. Washed stone and filter fabric keep the drain from silting in.
  5. A perforated footing drain takes the water to daylight, or to a basin if the grade will not allow it.
  6. Backfill is graded to fall away from the house, and downspouts are carried past the excavation.
Equipment

What actually goes in the ground

A waterproofing system is only as good as the parts it is built from, and those are the part of the quote nobody shows you. Here is ours.

1/2 HP

Half-horsepower pumps, standard

Every system we install gets a half-horsepower cast-iron pump. It is what we spec on an ordinary basement, not a line item you have to ask for, and it leaves headroom for the storm that arrives after we have gone home.

Zoeller pumps

Cast-iron sump and effluent pumps built in Louisville, about an hour and a half up the road. Parts and replacements are easy to get here, which matters more than it sounds like it should when a pump quits in February.

Jackel sump basins

Structural basins and sealed covers. A proper basin keeps the pump clear of silt and keeps soil gas and humidity from coming straight back up through the floor.

Santa Fe dehumidifiers

For the crawlspaces and basements that read damp even after the water is handled. Sized for the space, ducted where it needs to be, and set to drain rather than to a bucket somebody has to remember to empty.

A ducted dehumidifier on risers over a sealed crawlspace floor, drained rather than bucketed

Not every job needs every one of these. What goes on your quote is what your house actually calls for.

Water where it shouldn't be?

Call, or text a photo of the wall and we will tell you what we are looking at.

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