Interior drain tile New Berlin homeowners actually trust
Interior drain tile is the most popular way to dry a New Berlin basement 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 carries it away from the house. Your grass, driveway, and garden beds stay just as they were.
New Berlin sits on higher glacial-moraine ground, and much of it is heavy clay. That clay holds water and swells in spring, so when the snow melts the groundwater pushes up through the cove joint, where the wall meets the floor, and up through the slab. Many of the 1960s and 70s ranch homes here see it the same way every year. Drain tile catches that water at the footing and carries it to a sump crock and pump, and we add a battery backup so the system keeps running through storm season when the power drops.
New Berlin has an active home-buying market, so wet basements often turn up during an inspection. We handled one of those. A homeowner bought a house here with water damage in the basement, and we put in an interior drain tile system plus a sealer, and the space stayed dry. Nick, Luis, and our own crew have installed these systems since 1998, and we back the work with a lifetime transferable warranty. That homeowner stayed bone-dry right through the next spring thaw.
