Is the Basement flooding in your Rockville, MD home? Unless you’re looking at a burst pipe, which will be quite obvious to the eye, then the issue comes down to drainage. Specifically, a lack of it.
The problem lies in where your house is situated on your property. One way or another, it’s in the path of onrushing water. For example: If your house is located at the base of a hill, then every time it rains, water, being water, follows the path of least resistance, heads down the hill and straight for your house, where it pools and collects.
It seeps into your foundation causing damage, and supersaturates the soil, which exerts an incredible amount of pressure on the walls of your basement. Worse, all of this is mostly invisible. Yes, you may see the water pooled around your house, but the real damage is happening out of sight, underground.
Long term, you’ll see cracks begin to appear in your basement walls, accompanied by seepage.
If you’re proactive, at this point, you may try to implement some DIY waterproofing fixes. Those will buy you some time, but since they’re not addressing the drainage issue, they’re not getting to the root of the problem, and are at best, temporary solutions.
Ultimately, you’ll wind up in the same place. With your basement flooding in your Rockville, MD home, and at that point, the situation has become critical.
If your situation is anything like the above, then the original builders should have seen the problem coming, and installed a French drain when they built your home. Maybe they did, and over the years, it has become damaged or clogged to the point that it’s no longer functional.
If that’s the case, it’s an easier and cheaper fix than you might think. We can find the drain, locate the source of the clog or damage, and fix that, then address the damage to your basement itself.
Of course it’s also possible that a drain was just never built, which made basement flooding in your Rockville, MD home inevitable at some point. That’s still a fixable problem, but it’s a much more involved project, requiring extensive excavation to unearth your entire foundation, install the drain, waterproof your basement from the outside, then attend to the damage to the basement itself.
Whichever the case, we can get to the bottom of the mystery, tell you exactly what the problem is, and give you a no-obligation estimate so you’ll have a firm understanding of what it will take to put the problem behind you once and for all. Then, assuming you’re comfortable with the estimate, we’ll get down to business.
