Exterior waterproofing Wauwatosa homeowners actually trust
When a basement wall keeps leaking, the water is getting in from the outside, so that is where the real fix belongs. Exterior waterproofing seals the wall on its outer face and drains the water away at the footing, which stops it before it ever reaches your Wauwatosa basement. It is the most thorough way to keep a basement dry, and it is a smart call for the older homes that fill this part of Milwaukee County.
Wauwatosa is an established suburb, and a lot of its houses went up between the 1920s and the 1950s on block, brick, and stone foundations. Decades of settling take a toll, and the clay soil here swells every spring as it soaks up snowmelt and rain. That saturated soil leans on aging walls, and mature neighborhoods take on water when a heavy rain rolls through. Homes near the Menomonee River sit lower, where the ground stays wet longer. Interior patches cover the inside, and the old block or stone stays wet while the water finds another way in.
We are based nearby at 2128 Easy St in Waukesha, and Nick, Luis, and our own crew have been sealing walls like these since 1998. During a free inspection we find where the water is really coming in, dig along that wall, seal it, and drain it, then back the work with a lifetime transferable warranty. One homeowner in an older Wauwatosa neighborhood had fought a wet wall for years; we sealed the outside and their basement stayed bone-dry through the next spring thaw.
