Exterior Waterproofing for West Allis homes
West Allis was built close together. Rows of early-1900s bungalows and duplexes sit on narrow lots, with a driveway on one side and the neighbor's house a few steps away on the other. Those basements were laid up long before anyone put a membrane on a foundation, and today many of them hold a family room, a spare bedroom or the laundry for a second unit. When water comes through the wall of a room people actually use, a dehumidifier stops being the answer.
The outside of the wall is where this gets settled. We dig down along the foundation to the footing, clean the old block or concrete, fill cracks, and roll on a liquid waterproof membrane. Dimple board goes over that so water drops straight down to a new run of weeping tile set in washed gravel at the footing. Then the trench is backfilled and graded so the soil slopes away from the house. Glacial clay holds water against old walls, and this system finally gives it somewhere to go.
Tight lots take planning. Before we dig, Nick or Luis walks the side yards with you and looks at the gap to the property line, the walks, the gas meter and anything planted against the house. Some walls can be opened with a small machine, some by hand, and sometimes the side along a neighbor is better handled with interior drain tile. Your written quote says exactly which walls we excavate. When the City of West Allis requires a permit, we pull it.
