Service Area · Forest Heights
Basement Waterproofing in Forest Heights
Wet basement repair for Forest Heights and the west Kitchener neighbourhoods between Highland Road, Fischer-Hallman Road and the Westmount area.
Forest Heights was built through the late 1960s and 70s on the clay ridge west of downtown, and its basements have aged the same way as the east side's: concrete block walls in soil that holds water, the original clay or early plastic weeping tile now silted or crushed, and water coming through the block at the bottom course and along the floor-wall joint every spring. The land here is higher than Stanley Park and the water table is generally further below the floor, so the problem is more often the saturated wall and the failed tile than groundwater rising under the slab, and exterior excavation and membrane is the method that gets recommended most where the lot allows it. Where it does not — the wall under the driveway, the wall under the deck, the close-set semis and townhouses off Westheights Drive and Fischer-Hallman — an interior drainage system on that wall does the job. Forest Heights has a high share of finished basements, rec rooms from the 80s with panelling that hides a wet wall for years, and the first visit often starts with finding out how long the wall has been wet behind it. Weeping tile tied into the sanitary sewer is common in these streets too, and it is disconnected to a sump as part of the work. The newer streets further west toward Trussler Road are on poured concrete and their wet basements are grading and window wells. Forest Heights is inside Kitchener, so there is no travel charge.
Basement Waterproofing services in Forest Heights
- Exterior Excavation Waterproofing
- Interior Drainage System
- Weeping Tile Replacement
- Sump Pump & Battery Backup
- Window Well Drainage
Frequently asked questions
Do you charge more to work outside Kitchener?
Not inside the city. For Waterloo, Cambridge, Breslau and the townships, travel is built into the written quote up front rather than added afterwards. An excavation job is days of work, so the drive is a small part of it.
Why is my neighbour's basement dry and mine is wet?
Usually the soil, the grading or the tile. In Waterloo the Moraine sand drains and clay pockets do not, and the line between them can run through a street. In Kitchener it is more often grading — one lot slopes toward the house, the next one away — or a weeping tile that failed on one side of the property line and not the other. The first visit looks at both lots from the outside.
Serving Kitchener and surrounding areas. Contact us for a no-obligation quote specific to your property.