Exterior waterproofing Elm Grove homeowners actually trust
Elm Grove is a small, settled village, full of homes built in the 1950s and 60s under a mature canopy of shade trees. A lot of those houses sit on block foundations, and after sixty-some years the block leaks at the cove joint and through the mortar. When a wall keeps taking on water, the water is coming from the outside. Exterior waterproofing seals the wall on its outer face and drains that water away at the footing, so it stops before it reaches your basement. It is the most thorough way to keep a basement dry.
The village sits in the Underwood Creek watershed on heavy clay soil. Every spring the snowmelt saturates that clay, and the swollen soil presses against older block walls until it finds a crack. The big trees that make Elm Grove what it is add to the pattern too. Their roots pull moisture around unevenly, so the ground swells in one spot and shrinks in another and the block works loose over the years. Interior patches cover the inside of the wall, and the block stays wet on the outside.
We are based at 2128 Easy St in Waukesha, a short drive west, and Nick, Luis, and our own crew have been sealing these walls since 1998. At a free inspection we find where the water is really getting in, dig along that wall, seal it, and drain it, then back the work with a lifetime transferable warranty. One older Elm Grove home had fought a wet wall for years. We sealed the outside and the basement stayed bone-dry through the next spring thaw.
