Interior drain tile Wauwatosa homeowners actually trust
Wauwatosa is one of the older suburbs on the Milwaukee side, with the Menomonee River winding through it and street after street of homes built between the 1920s and 1950s. Many of those basements sit on brick, block, or stone foundations that have settled for decades. Interior drain tile fits these older homes well, 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 carries it to a sump pump that pushes it away from the house.
The clay soil around Wauwatosa swells when it soaks up spring meltwater, and that pressure pushes groundwater up through the cove joint, where the wall meets the floor, and up through cracks in the slab. In the mature neighborhoods near the river, basements take on water during a heavy rain. Drain tile catches that water at the footing before it can spread across your floor and routes it to a sump crock and pump. We add a battery backup so the system keeps working through a storm outage.
We are based at 2128 Easy St in Waukesha, and Nick, Luis, and our own crew have put in 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.
