Basement Waterproofing Before & After Photos

French drains aren't something that we do too often, but sometimes it can be just the right solution for a customer. This school in Gray Court had water intrusion into their gym. Since the water was not pouring in from the walls, our Service Design Specialist knew that a French drain is exactly what this building needed to keep the water from getting into it.

The "before" picture shows the building before the French drain was installed. While you obviously cannot see the water intrusion happening, you can see that the building is located on a very flat area. So when it would rain, the water would basically just sit there, not having anywhere to drain out to. The water would sit there and soak through the walls and into the ground.

In the "after" picture, you can see the french drain. Rather, you can see part of the French drain system. While you cannot actually see the drain where the water goes, you can see the gravel/crushed rock that is laid around it. The rock provides a good "foundation" so that nothing will wash away or into the drain, but also allows water to easily pass through and around it and into the drain. In the right conditions, this can be a low-cost and effective solution.

Time after time, these homeowners tried a number of solutions to their water problem. No matter the solution, this water issue just wouldn’t abate. Just like what you see here in the “before” photo, water would spill from the walls and then dry against the floor. Once it dried fully, this is what you would see.

Now, the “after” photo shows what we’ve done to actually fix this problem. Here, along the wall, we’ve installed WaterGuard. WaterGuard is the perfect piping system that actually disappears into the floor. We lift the cement floors, install the drain system and then recover it with cement.

The owners of this Martin, Georgia basement was more than relieved to see the solution work perfectly.

This is yet another home with a basement with a roll up garage door in Martin, GA that had water seeping into it. This is another prime example of hydrostatic pressure forcing water through the walls of basements. The homeowner this property called us at All-Dry of the Carolinas where we sent out our system design specialist, Johnathan Geddie  to check out the problem. Once Jonathan got to the home he saw that water had been seeping through the walls of the basement. This basement needed a combination of WaterGuard, BrightWall, a UltraSump and a SuperSump pump to take care of their problem. The WaterGuard is connected to the SuperSump pump so any water can be drained into it. The sump pump will flush the water out once it reaches a certain spot. When the sump pump flushes the water, it goes through a piping system and through the LawnScape outlet where the water flows into the yard away from the home.

When water comes into your crawlspace there are several different ways to remove the water. In this crawlspace in Anderson, SC, water was flooding in during heavy rains.  In the “before” picture you see a bare crawlspace with a trench dug around the perimeter. This trench was made to fit in our 3 inch drain tile. This draining system is three inches in diameter and is placed under the soil. Whenever water tries to enter the crawlspace again, the water will enter the draining system and be guided to the SmartSump pump to be flushed from the crawlspace. The “after” picture shows the draining system anchored down by rocks and leading to the SmartSump.

Unfortunately, there are many basements that are plagued with water intrusion. There are a number of different ways that this water may be getting into the basement, but we know of one surefire way of keeping it out! Our systems have been installed in thousands of homes and these homeowners have been pleased at the results! While we hate that many homes are dealing with these issues, we are glad that we can provide a solution to them!

This homeowner was having some serious water intrusion in their basement, enough that some of the wood making up the stairs was beginning to deteriorate. The homeowner called knowing that this could certainly be a serious issue. Our System Design Specialist was able to diagnose the problems that were going on in the basement, and provide the perfect solution for the home.

The after picture gives a great view of some of the work that was done in the basement of this Anderson, SC home. The two biggest things were the installation of the CleanSpace liner and the WaterGuard, which cannot be seen well in this photo. The CleanSpace was installed along the walls of the basement in order to help catch and bring the water to the WaterGuard that was installed. WaterGuard is a drain that was installed along the perimeter of the basement floor in order to catch any and all water that was coming through.