Interior Drain Tile for Merton homes
Merton sits along the Bark River, with North Lake and Pine Lake just up the road, and in spring that water is close to the surface. When the snow melts and the river rises, the ground around a Merton basement fills up and stays full. That's when we hear from people: water along the base of the wall, a damp stripe across the floor, sometimes a thin puddle in the corner that never quite dries.
The village has a small historic center with newer subdivisions built out around it, and high groundwater treats them all the same. It pushes up from below as hydrostatic pressure, into the joint where wall meets floor and through any crack in the slab. Interior drain tile gives that water a way out. We trench beneath the floor along the footing, lay perforated pipe in washed gravel and slope it to a sump crock.
With a high water table, the pump matters as much as the pipe. We size it for the volume a Merton spring can bring, set it in a lidded crock, and add a battery backup so a storm outage won't let the pit overflow. Our crew comes out from Waukesha, looks at where your water shows up, and gives you a written quote. When the Village of Merton requires a permit, we pull it.
