Wet Basement Waterproofing System, Installed Near Richmond, Lexington, Georgetown

This home had a crawlspace and a basement area, both of which needed waterproofed. We installed our drainage matting all over the crawl space floor, which led to perforated pipes covered in gravel in the crawl space. We then hooked up the perforated pipes to the WaterGuard drains we installed in the basement. All of the drains are connected to a SmartSump, which discharges outside the home in a safe area. 

As a result from all the hydrostatic pressure this basement foundation was receiving, the walls were bowing in and leaking water. In the before picture you can see the chipped paint, cracks, bowing, and the pool of water on the floor. In the after picture you can see PowerBraces holding the bowing walls up, CleanSpace walls covering the once dirty wall, fresh concrete over the hidden WaterGuard drains all around the perimeter of the basement, and a TripleSafe sump pump all the way in the corner. 

The foundation of this home needed waterproofed because their garage was leaking a lot of water. We installed a full perimeter interior waterproofing system consisting of waterguard drains, a trench drain, a SuperSump sump pump, a SaniDry Sedona dehumidifier, and a discharge line equipped with IceGuards. 

We replaced the failing sump pump in this Winchester, Kentucky home with a new SuperSump. 

The renovators for this newly purchased home knew that the epoxy sealant applied to the foundation walls was not going to help this basement stay dry. You see, epoxy sealants and other sealants of the same nature don't fix the root cause of basement leaking issues. The real problem is all the water pressure sitting on the outside of the foundation walls, and the best way to relieve that pressure is an interior perimeter waterproofing system. We installed our system equipped with subfloor drains, a sump pump, and a vapor barrier. This system invites the built up water through weeping holes near the bottom of the foundation, (as seen in the before photo) and discharges all the water far away from the base of the home. After the system was installed, the renovators were ready to finish the basement however they like. 

A homeowner in London, Kentucky was having problems with water seeping into the crawl space.  At the time, the crawl space just had some plastic laid on the floor to act as a vapor barrier. The CleanSpace liner that we installed, similar to a pool liner, was permanently attached to the floor and floor joists of the crawl space.  This provides a vapor-proof barrier between the ground and home. 

Hydrostatic pressure is the most common issue for basements that we see. When your foundation was first built, the builders have to dig up soil around the foundation and then have to backfill back around that foundation with the same soil. Because the soil was dug up, it's not as compact. This creates a clay bowl effect around your home, where water is more inclined to saturate the soil around your foundation because the soil was once broken up. With all this water sitting on the outside of your foundation, it creates a tremendous amount of pressure on the walls. In order to relieve this water pressure, we installed an interior waterproofing system that invites the built up water into the sump pump, and then the sump pump discharges that water far away from the home. We then installed PowerBraces on the bowed wall to make sure the wall is stabilized for good. Lastly, we installed BrightWall panels to cover up the stained block walls.