Is the basement flooding in your Potomac, MD home? If it is, then you know what a nightmare it can be. Very few things are more damaging to your home and property. It’s insidious. It gets into and under everything and it can cause serious damage in virtually no time. It’s a crisis, no doubt, and it needs to be dealt with immediately before things spiral out of control and you find yourself facing a repair bill you’ll struggle to pay.

Before we can fix the basement flooding in your Potomac, MD home though, we’ve got to get to the root cause of the issue. In cases like these, it’s one of two things: Either it’s a busted pipe, or it’s a drainage issue, or more specifically, the lack of drainage around your home.

If it’s a busted pipe, you’re in luck. If your basement is flooding in your Potomac, MD home, it might not feel like luck, but honestly, a busted pipe is a quick, easy fix, which, under the circumstances, is about the best outcome you can hope for.

If it’s a drainage issue, the problem is still fixable, but it’s still a bigger job, for sure. In this case, one of two things are true. You’ve either got a French drain around the foundation of your home, but over time, it’s become clogged or damaged to the point where it’s no longer operational, or you don’t have one at all and you desperately need one.

If you have a drain and it’s just not working, that’s bad, but not as bad as it could be. We find the problem, fix it, then attend to the damage of the basement itself.

Worst case scenario, you don’t have a drain at all, which means there’s nothing to keep water from pooling around your home and causing further damage. Until and unless that’s fixed, the problem is just going to keep getting worse.

This is a major project, but still doable. To fix the issue once and for all, we’ll need to do some serious excavation to expose your entire foundation. Then we can add a French drain, waterproof your basement from the outside, then move indoors to fix the damage to the basement itself.

Whichever the case, as soon as we identify the problem, we’ll let you know the details and give you a free, no-obligation quote so you’ll know exactly what it will take to put the whole mess behind you. Assuming you’re comfortable with our quote, we’ll get to work, and before you know it, it’s over and done with.

If you’re facing flooding of any severity, don’t wait. Call us today. We can help.

Let us tell you a horror story.

You bought a house and moved in. Everything seems great, but you quickly notice that each time it rains, you wind up with water pooling and collecting around your house. It’s annoying, but you don’t think much of it.

Unfortunately, underground where you can’t see what’s happening, that water is seeping you’re your foundation, weakening and damaging it. It’s also supersaturating the soil around your home, which exerts tremendous pressure on your basement walls.

Months pass, and you start noticing small amounts of water in your basement. The air feels damp and heavy. Soon, cracks start appearing in the walls, and then, one night, after a heavy rain, you experience basement flooding in your Kensington, MD home. It’s a disaster.

This little story, or one very like it, happens a lot more often than you might think. It’s important to understand though, that basement flooding in your Kensington, MD home doesn’t just happen overnight (unless a pipe bursts or something), but rather, is a slow-building process that happens over time.

Those early symptoms are harbingers of things to come, and if you don’t take action when you first see them, the ultimately, inevitably, you’re going to wind up facing basement flooding in your Kensington, MD home.

Again, barring something like a burst pipe, the issue here is drainage, or more specifically, the lack of it.

If your home is prone to having water build up around it after it rains, then the builders obviously knew this when they first built your house. What should have happened is that early on in the construction of your home, a French drain should have been installed to divert the water safely away from the home, and maybe that happened. It could be that you have a drain, but that over the years, something has happened to clog or damage it to the point that it’s no longer functional.

In that case, the problem is bad, but still fairly easy to fix. We locate the problem with the drain, unclog or repair it, waterproof the basement, patch the walls, and attend to any other damage on the interior.

Unfortunately, it could also be the case that no drain was ever installed at all. It is possible to go in after the fact and add one, but it’s a much bigger project, requiring extensive excavation to uncover the entire foundation of your house, install the drain, waterproof, and then move into the basement itself to patch and repair.

In either case, we can help. As the region’s top-rated landscaping company, we’ve got the skills and the engineering expertise to fix the problem once and for all. Don’t delay, call us today, and let’s fix this!

Are you suffering basement flooding issues in your Germantown, MD home? That’s a serious problem with no easy answers, and as you know, few things are more damaging to home and property than water. It’s silent and insidious.

Everything seems fine one day, and then the next, it’s everywhere, and depending on the severity of the basement flooding in your Germantown, MD home, you’re not only looking at thousands of dollars in repairs, but also the loss of pretty much everything the water touches. Given how much “stuff” most people store in their basements, that could be catastrophic, to say the least.

At the root, there are really only two things that cause flooding like you’re experiencing. It’s either a burst pipe (which is obvious, and although quite damaging, fairly easy to fix), or it’s a drainage issue. That’s harder to fix, but still doable.

Normally, if a house is built “in the path” of water, like in cases where your house is built on a lower elevation on your property, the builders will install a French drain during the early phases of construction. It’s possible that that’s what the builders did in your case, and over time, something has happened to clog or damage the drain, which is leading to basement flooding in your Germantown, MD home.

If that’s the case, the problem is bad, but still fairly easy to fix. We find the clogged or damaged section of the drain, repair it, waterproof your basement, then attend to the damaged walls and the interior.

On the other hand, if the builders just never added a drain at all, that’s a bigger project. It will require deep excavation that will expose the entire foundation of your home. Once exposed, we can add the drain, waterproof your basement from the outside, then fix the walls and the damage to the interior.

Whatever the case, once we know the scope and scale of the problem, we’ll provide you with a no-obligation estimate so you’ll know exactly what you’re up against, and assuming you’re comfortable with our estimate, we’ll get to work. It won’t be pretty for a while, but we’ll make sure the problem is solved once and for all, so you’ll never have to worry about it again.

Situations like these are unfortunate to say the least, and when they happen, you don’t want to entrust the repairs to just anyone. You need a trusted expert you know you can rely on. We are that expert. As the region’s #1 landscaping company, we’ve handled scores of issues like the one you’re experiencing. We have the skills and the engineering expertise to get the job done, no matter how bad it seems right now.

Give us a call. We’ll be right over.

Is the basement flooding in your Gaithersburg, MD home every time it rains? Even if it’s only flooding “a little,” that’s a crisis that needs to be addressed right away, because the problem is only going to get worse over time.

Unfortunately, if you’re seeing basement flooding of any severity in your Gaithersburg, MD home, the underlying problem that’s causing it has clearly become critical. If it was just a question of cracks in your basement walls or minor seepage, you might be able to buy yourself some time with DIY waterproofing strategies and solutions. Unfortunately, even the best of those are stopgap measures that do nothing to address the core problem.

And what is that core problem? It comes down to drainage.

When your home was first built, the builders should have installed a French drain in the early stages of construction in order to redirect water and preventing it from leading to basement flooding in your Gaithersburg, MD home. It could be the case that the drain was, in fact, installed, but over time, it has become clogged or damaged to the point that it’s no longer functional.

If that’s the case, the problem should be fairly easy to resolve, and less costly than your flooding issue might indicate. On the other hand, it’s also possible that the drain was simply never built. In that case, we can certainly add one now, but it’s a significantly larger project.

The first thing we’ll have to do is some excavating to determine precisely what the issue is (clogged drain, or none at all). Once we know, if we need to build a French drain, we’ll need to do some extensive excavation to fully expose the foundation of your home, install the drain, then see to the repairs of the basement walls, sealing and waterproofing to ensure that when we put everything back together, you don’t see any further problems.

Before the work begins, we’ll be sure to outline exactly what steps need to be taken and give you a no-obligation estimate so you’ll know exactly what it will take to put this problem in your rearview mirror. Then, assuming you’re comfortable with everything, we’ll begin.

A problem this serious is never easy or fun to deal with, and while we can’t go back in time and make it so you never had to suffer with the issue at all, we can make sure all the damage is repaired, and keep your basement from flooding in the future.

Few things are more damaging to your home and property than water damage. If you’re experiencing seepage, cracks in your basement walls, or worst of all, flooding on any level, don’t delay. Call us today. We’re happy to help.

Is the basement flooding in your Columbia, MD home? If it is, you don’t need us to tell you how bad the problem is. Few things are more damaging to your home and property than water. Obviously, if something isn’t done immediately, you could be facing catastrophic losses, but hold on. As bad as it is, there’s a solution to every problem.

First, let’s take a deep breath and a half step back to see what caused the basement flooding in your Columbia, MD home in the first place. Once we get to the root cause, we can figure out exactly what to do about it.

There are really only two things that could cause basement flooding in your Columbia, MD home. The first is pretty straightforward and easy to spot. If a pipe burst, you’ve got big problems, but fortunately, that’s an easy problem to fix.

The second thing is drainage, or rather, the conspicuous lack of it. When your house was first built, if it was built in an area where drainage would be a problem, the builders almost certainly would have known that. It could be the case that during the early stages of your home’s construction, they did, in fact, install a drainage system, but somehow, during the intervening years, the drain has either become clogged or damaged to the point where it’s no longer functional.

As bad as things are with your basement flooding, this too is a fairly simple problem to fix. We find the problem with the drain, fix it, waterproof the basement, and then attend to the damage caused in the meantime.

The worst case scenario would be if the builders just didn’t install a French drain at all when they first built the house. In that case, it’s a much bigger project and a much bigger problem, but it’s still fixable.

To tackle it, we’ll need to do some serious excavation around your home, completely exposing your foundation so we can install the drainage system, then move to waterproofing the basement externally, and finally patching the damage to the walls of your basement, and fixing any other damage your basement may have suffered.

Before we get to any of that though, we’ll give you our professional assessment and a no-obligation quote so you’ll know exactly what you’re up against and exactly what it will take to fix the problem once and for all.

Then, assuming you’re comfortable with the estimate, we’ll get to work, and put the problem in your rearview mirror in short order.

Catastrophes like this are never fun to deal with, but you don’t have to go it alone. Trust the region’s best landscape company. We’ve got the engineering expertise to get the job done right, which will give you tremendous peace of mind.