Interior Drain Tile for Fox Point homes
Fox Point is full of mid-century homes sitting under trees that were already big when the houses went up. Those roots crowd the foundation, and a lot of downspouts still empty a foot from the wall, just like the day they were installed. Every good rain dumps roof water straight into the clay next to your basement. On the Lake Michigan bluff, the soil stays wet a long time, and the water finds its way in at the base of the wall.
Interior drain tile gives that water somewhere to go. We open a trench along the inside perimeter, lay perforated pipe in washed stone under the slab, and slope it to a sealed sump crock with a pump and battery backup. Seepage at the wall-floor joint drops into the pipe and gets pumped outside. It's all done from within the basement, so the roots and the landscaping around your house are left in peace.
We'll also point out the easy wins, like extending downspouts farther from the foundation, because less water at the wall means less for the pump to move. Nick or Luis will look at the walls for cracks or movement before recommending anything. You get a written quote with the tile runs and pump spelled out. If the Village of Fox Point requires a permit, we pull it.
