Interior Drain Tile for Dousman homes
Dousman sits on the Bark River in western Waukesha County, and spring here often means a high river, soaked fields and a wet basement floor. The older houses in the village core were built long before anyone planned for drain tile. Out on the farm-country lots around town, homes stand alone with open land draining toward them. Both kinds of property end up with the same problem when the snow melts: water collecting beside the footing with nowhere to go.
Interior drain tile gives it somewhere to go. We break out a strip of the slab along the basement walls, dig down beside the footing, and set perforated pipe in washed gravel. The pipe catches the water that used to seep through the joint and carries it to a sump crock. From there a pump pushes it outside, and a battery backup keeps it running if a storm knocks the power out, which happens often enough on rural lines.
Old village homes in Dousman sometimes have block basements with low ceilings and tight stairways. We work by hand in those spaces and keep the mess contained. Our crew comes out from the shop in Waukesha, and Nick or Luis will look at your basement, show you where the water enters, and put the plan in a written quote. If the Village of Dousman requires a permit for the job, we pull it.
