Interior drain tile Greenfield homeowners actually trust
Greenfield grew up as a Milwaukee suburb after World War II, and a lot of the ranch and Cape Cod homes along the Root River corridor are now more than 60 years old. Many of them sit on block foundations that have been holding back groundwater for decades. Interior drain tile is the most popular way to dry one of these basements for good, and the whole system goes in from inside with no digging your yard. We set a perforated pipe below the slab along the footing, so it catches water right where it enters and routes it to a sump pump that sends it away from the house.
The soil under Greenfield is heavy clay, and clay holds water and swells in spring. When the snow melts and the summer storms roll through, the groundwater rises and pushes up through the cove joint, where the wall meets the floor, and through the slab itself. Drain tile catches that water at the footing before it can pool and carries it to a sump crock and pump. We add a battery backup so the pump keeps working through a Greenfield storm, even when the power drops.
We are based at 2128 Easy St in Waukesha, and Nick, Luis, and our own crew have installed these systems since 1998. During a free inspection we trace where the water is getting in, lay the drain tile, set the crock and pump, and patch the slab back, then back the work with a lifetime transferable warranty. One homeowner had mopped up every spring for years; after we put the system in, their basement stayed bone-dry through the next spring thaw.
