2 WAYS WATER GETS INTO YOUR BASEMENT

There are a couple of different ways water gets into a basement.

One way is water entering and trickling down the wall at around eye level (if you’re standing in the basement). Essentially this means that the source of the water is stemming from grade level. Water coming into the basement this way is due to poor grading and, or, unsatisfactory leaders and gutters. The grading needs to be built up and sloped away from the house approximately 5 feet. The gutters need to be cleaned regularly and the leaders need to discharge the water away from the house, again, approximately 5 feet.  

The only other way water can get into the house is due to the water table. In our area, there is a high water table and with a certain amount of precipitation, it causes the water table to rise, putting pressure on the foundation. Typically, it comes in where the floor and the wall meet, through cracks in the slab or through the wall at the base of the foundation. If this is the issue, the only way to permanently solve the problem, is to install a French drain.

We install a French drain by breaking open the concrete floor about a foot wide, dig and trench it out, lay perforated PVC pipe and gravel in the trench and recover the trench with concrete. The French drain is installed so that everything is gravity fed to a sump pump and the pump discharges the water up and out of the basement. After Arid installs a French drain, we back our work up with a Lifetime Guarantee that you will not have any water on the floor again!