Service Area · Waterloo
Basement Waterproofing in Waterloo
Wet basement repair for Waterloo, from the century houses around uptown and Mary-Allen to the 1970s block walls in Lakeshore and Beechwood and the student rentals near the universities.
Waterloo has the most uneven basements in the Region, and the reason is under the ground. The Waterloo Moraine — the band of sand and gravel that supplies much of the city's drinking water — runs under a large part of it, and where a house sits on that sand the basement drains itself and stays dry with almost no help. But the moraine is patchy. Clay pockets and the low ground along Laurel Creek, through Lakeshore and Lincoln Village and toward the Conestoga Parkway, hold water against the foundation the way Kitchener clay does, and the line between sand and clay can run through the middle of a street. That is why one neighbour has a dry basement and the other pumps every spring. The 1960s to 80s block walls in Lakeshore, Beechwood and off Westmount Road on the clay side have the same failed tile and saturated block as Kitchener's east side. The century houses around uptown and in Mary-Allen have stone basements with no tile at all, and many of them are student rentals near the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier where a wet basement bedroom is a landlord's problem every September. The newer subdivisions in Columbia Forest, Laurelwood and Vista Hills are on poured concrete over moraine sand, mostly dry, with the occasional grading or window well failure. Permits and discharge rules go through the City of Waterloo, and travel from Kitchener is built into the quote.
Basement Waterproofing services in Waterloo
- 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.