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!