Interior Drain Tile for Cudahy homes
In Cudahy, the calls pick up right after a big summer storm rolls in off Lake Michigan. A couple inches of rain lands in an hour, the clay around the house fills up, and water starts creeping across the basement floor from the edge where the wall meets the slab. Many Cudahy homes are modest older houses near the airport and the lakeshore, and their owners want a fix that works without turning the project into a remodel. Interior drain tile is often that fix, because it goes in from inside and leaves your yard, driveway and landscaping alone.
Here is how it works. We cut a narrow trench in the concrete along the walls that leak, lay perforated pipe in washed gravel under the slab, and slope it to a sump crock. Water that pushes in at the joint drops into the pipe before it reaches your floor. A pump sends it outside, and a battery backup keeps it running when a storm knocks the power out, which tends to happen on exactly the nights you need it most. Then we patch the floor with fresh concrete.
We keep the scope honest. If only one or two walls take water, we can talk about covering those first, and we will explain what that trade-off means for the rest of the basement. Financing is available if it helps spread the cost out. Our crew comes from the shop on Easy St in Waukesha, and when the City of Cudahy requires a permit for the work, we pull it. Everything we install is backed by a lifetime transferable warranty.
