Exterior Waterproofing for Franklin homes
Franklin grew subdivision by subdivision from the 1980s on, and nearly every one of those houses sits on a poured concrete foundation. Poured walls are strong, but they almost always develop thin vertical shrinkage cracks as the concrete cures. For years nothing happens. Then a wet spring pushes groundwater against the wall and a dark stripe shows up running from the top of the wall down to the floor.
Other signs usually come along with it. The sump pump kicks on every few minutes after a storm, the window wells fill up like buckets, and the carpet near one corner never quite dries. All of that points to water sitting in the clay around the house with too much pressure behind it. Sealing the crack from inside can slow a drip, yet the wall stays soaked on the outside.
Exterior waterproofing handles it from the outside. We excavate down to the footing, clean the wall, repair each crack, and roll on a liquid waterproof membrane. Dimple board goes over it, new weeping tile goes in at the footing with washed gravel, and the backfill is graded away from your home. The window wells get tied into the drain so they stop flooding. If the City of Franklin requires a permit, we pull it.
