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Exterior Waterproofing in Saint Francis, WI

Saint Francis basements, dry again under the finished walls

Exterior waterproofing in Saint Francis, WI for postwar homes with older finished basements. Sealed from outside so your finished rooms stay in place.

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Exterior Waterproofing for Saint Francis homes

Saint Francis is a small city right on Lake Michigan, and many of its homes went up in the years after the war. A lot of those basements were finished decades ago with paneling, carpet and a family room. For a long time they stayed dry enough. Now the paneling is warping at the bottom, the carpet smells musty after a storm, and there is a stain creeping out from behind a wall.

Lake-effect weather is hard on these walls. Wind off the lake drives rain against the house, snow piles up and melts in waves, and the glacial clay around the foundation stays wet for long stretches. The drainage at the footing on a postwar house is often clogged or missing. Water sits against the wall until it finds a way through, usually right behind the finish where you cannot see it until the damage shows.

Exterior waterproofing is a good fit for a finished basement because the work happens in the yard. We dig to the footing, repair and seal the wall with a liquid membrane and dimple board, and lay new weeping tile in washed gravel. Your finished room stays in place. Nick or Luis will walk you through it first, and when the City of Saint Francis requires a permit, we pull it.

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Exterior Waterproofing diagram for Saint Francis, WI homes - Basement Foundation Repair

What's Included

What exterior waterproofing in Saint Francis includes

Here's what goes into exterior waterproofing on a Saint Francis home:

Excavation to the footing

We dig along the leaking wall down to the footing so the whole face of the foundation can be cleaned, repaired and sealed.

Liquid waterproof membrane

Cracks get hydraulic cement, then the wall gets a thick elastomeric membrane that keeps water off the concrete.

Dimple board and weeping tile

Dimple board gives water a gap to drain down, and new perforated weeping tile at the footing carries it away.

Washed gravel and regrading

Washed gravel around the tile keeps it draining, then we backfill and grade the soil to slope away from the house.

Warning Signs

Signs your Saint Francis home needs exterior waterproofing

Water seeping through the wall after heavy rain or the spring thaw
White chalky efflorescence on the block
A musty smell that never leaves the basement
Paint peeling or bubbling off a foundation wall
Water pooling against the foundation outside after a storm
An old leak that interior patches never stopped

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How It Works

How a exterior waterproofing job in Saint Francis runs

Find the leak path

We look at the wall inside and the grade outside to see where the water gets in.

Written plan and price

You get the excavation length, the materials and the price on paper.

Dig, seal and drain

Our own crew excavates, repairs and seals the wall, and sets new weeping tile and gravel.

Backfill and warranty

We backfill, regrade, clean up and register your lifetime transferable warranty.

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Lifetime

Backed by a lifetime transferable warranty

We stand behind every job in Saint Francis. If the problem we fixed ever comes back, we return and make it right at no cost, and the warranty passes to the next owner when you sell.

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Real Results

What homeowners say about our crew

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They replaced our drain tile, put in a sump pump, set steel beams, and sealed the basement walls - then redid the window wells and buried a downspout outside. The price was competitive and Nick, Luis and the crew explained everything as they went.

Barb Ahrens

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What an amazing job. There aren't enough words to say how much we appreciate Nick, Luis and the crew. The work was beautiful and they left the job site perfect. Thank you so much!

Ken Noffke

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Find Us

Your local exterior waterproofing team for Saint Francis

Basement Foundation Repair, LLC

2128 Easy St
Waukesha, WI 53188

Our crew heads out to Saint Francis from the Waukesha shop.

Phone: +1 (414) 587-3093

Hours: Mon–Fri 7am–7pm · Sat 8am–4pm

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Other basement services in Saint Francis

Foundation Repair in Saint Francis

Structural work comes first on a moving wall. Each crack is cleaned out and packed with hydraulic cement and structural sealant, which shuts off both water and movement at that spot.

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Interior Drain Tile in Saint Francis

Drain tile handles water at the wall-floor joint from inside. We cut the floor along the walls and lay perforated pipe in gravel next to the footing to catch water before it reaches the floor.

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Steel Support Beams

Steel I-beams anchored floor-to-joist that brace a bowing wall and stop it from moving.

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Questions, Answered

Saint Francis exterior waterproofing FAQs

Not for the waterproofing itself, since we work from outside. You'll likely want to replace the damaged paneling once the wall is dry. We can take off a small section to look at the wall first.

It can. Wind off the lake drives rain against the house, and snow piles up and melts in waves. That keeps the clay around your foundation wet for longer stretches.

Water often gets in behind finished walls where you can't see it. We look at the outside grade, check moisture along the walls and find where it's coming in. Then you'll know if the outside is the right place to fix it.

Many homes from that time have old clay tile or none at all. If water shows up low on the walls after rain, the drainage is likely failing. We'll check when we come out.

It depends on the scope. When the City of Saint Francis requires a permit, we pull it and handle the inspection. You don't need to do anything.

Yes, if that's the side that leaks. We dig that wall, seal it and add new weeping tile. Other walls can wait unless they start showing water too.

It usually means water is getting through the wall or the joint at the floor. Snowmelt in spring loads the soil with water. Sealing the outside and adding drainage keeps it out.

Usually a few days per wall. We backfill and grade the soil to slope away from the house. Grass along the dig will need to grow back.

Yes. Put new drywall and flooring on a dry wall. Otherwise the new finish can end up just like the old one.

Yes, financing is available. We'll walk through it when you get your written quote. It lets you fix the water now and pay over time.

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Ready to deal with your Saint Francis basement?

Call our family team and we will come out to Saint Francis, look at the problem with you and put an honest, written quote in your hands.

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