Repairs & Drainage
Turning your crawl space and basement into a dry space will eliminate nasty odors, mold and poor air quality within days — once and for all.
Foundation Repair
Crawlspaces.com offers foundation repair services that include injection of foundation cracks and honeycombed walls using urethane and epoxy. These methods of foundation crack repair will completely seal cracks, stopping water seepage and insect infiltration. Sometimes, a crack needs to be repaired from the outside. If so, we can dig to the footings and patch the crack using waterproof materials. The signs you have a foundation crack, or other foundation seepage issues, is by experiencing water only in the same location as the crack, and not found basically across the floor.
Other wall seepage problems can be through honeycombing (dry gravel mix) of the concrete, corroded wall ties (steel ties for the original concrete forms), and cuts or drilling through the foundation for plumbing or electrical. The repairs for these problems might be a combination of hydraulic cement, injection, and epoxy patching.
Draintile and Sump Pump Installation
Hydrostatic pressure below your home will push water up from below the footings of your home and into your crawl space or basement. Hydrostatic pressure is essentially ground water moving around exterior walls and seeking equilibrium by pushing water onto the basement floor from underneath. To confirm you are experiencing this condition, you will notice water seepage in various locations, mostly through floor cracks if you have a concrete surfaced crawlspace, or at the edges of dirt crawlspace or in the gravel if gravel floors..
A basement drain tile installation requires the edge of the concrete floor to be removed and trenched. Most crawl spaces are dirt, and breaking concrete is not needed to create a trench. To properly install a dewatering system, a perforated drain tile is laid into the trench and surrounded by stone, thereby creating a continuous capillary break that leads water to a sump liner or sump pit. A perimeter drain tile system must lead directly to a pit and pump, and not have high and low spots to interrupt the flow of water. Crawlspaces.com can install a new perforated plastic pit with perforations, which is more desirable than a cylindrical concrete or terra cotta sump pit. Perforated plastic sump pits are surrounded with stone, and can allow water into it much faster than the old style sump pits in existing homes with crawl spaces. Battery back up sump pumps are also available to those who experience long power outages or just desire an insurance against pump failure.
Draintile and Sump Pump Installation
Hydrostatic pressure below your home will push water up from below the footings of your home and into your crawl space or basement. Hydrostatic pressure is essentially ground water moving around exterior walls and seeking equilibrium by pushing water onto the basement floor from underneath. To confirm you are experiencing this condition, you will notice water seepage in various locations, mostly through floor cracks if you have a concrete surfaced crawlspace, or at the edges of dirt crawlspace or in the gravel if gravel floors..
A basement drain tile installation requires the edge of the concrete floor to be removed and trenched. Most crawl spaces are dirt, and breaking concrete is not needed to create a trench. To properly install a dewatering system, a perforated drain tile is laid into the trench and surrounded by stone, thereby creating a continuous capillary break that leads water to a sump liner or sump pit. A perimeter drain tile system must lead directly to a pit and pump, and not have high and low spots to interrupt the flow of water. Crawlspaces.com can install a new perforated plastic pit with perforations, which is more desirable than a cylindrical concrete or terra cotta sump pit. Perforated plastic sump pits are surrounded with stone, and can allow water into it much faster than the old style sump pits in existing homes with crawl spaces.
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