Interior Drain Tile for Menomonee Falls homes
Menomonee Falls is one of the biggest villages in Wisconsin, and its basements come from every era since the 1950s. On the older streets you'll find concrete block walls laid when the post-war houses went up. In the newer subdivisions the walls are poured. Down near the Menomonee River the ground stays wetter longer after snowmelt, and water finds the seam where the wall sits on the footing. That seam is where most calls we get from the village start: a dark line along the floor edge after a storm.
Interior drain tile goes right to that seam. We cut a strip of the slab along each wall, dig a trench down beside the footing, and lay perforated pipe in washed stone. Water that pushes up through the joint, or runs down inside hollow block cores, drops into the pipe and flows to a sump crock. A pump sends it out and away from the house, and a battery backup keeps it running when a summer storm knocks the power out.
A block basement from the village's post-war years and a poured one in a newer subdivision need different details. On block we drill small weep holes at the base of the cores so trapped water can drain into the tile. On poured walls we focus on the joint and any crack that runs down to the floor. Nick or Luis will look at where your water shows up before recommending a layout, and when the Village of Menomonee Falls requires a permit for the work, we pull it.
