Interior drain tile West Allis homeowners actually trust
West Allis is a dense older streetcar suburb, and a lot of the homes here date from the early 1900s through the middle of the century. Those houses sit on aging block and brick-and-stone foundations that were built long before modern drainage. 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 carries it away from the house.
The clay soil under West Allis holds water and swells in spring. As the snow melts, the ground saturates and the water table rises, pushing groundwater up through the cove joint where the wall meets the floor and up through the slab. Older basements on these tight lots take on water in heavy rain and spring melt, year after year. Drain tile catches that water at the footing before it can pool and sends it to a sump crock and pump. We add a battery backup so the system keeps pumping when a storm drops the power.
We are based right here in the area 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.
