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There are more than 12,000 houses in the North Shore community of Northbrook and almost every one of them has a basement. Because Northbrook boomed after World War II like most suburbs in the United States, a lot of those houses are starting to show their age, especially considering that...
The sump pump has often been described as the “heart” of a basement waterproofing system and this is a pretty accurate description. After all, a sump pump moves water through a drain tile system and out of the house, similar to the function of that most important of human organs...
The words “concrete” and “cement” are often used interchangeably but they are different, with one being a component of the other. The most common form of cement is known as Portland cement, which is made by heating various components of calcium, silicon and other materials, often derived from limestone, in...
One of the main contributors to basement water problems is the oversaturation of soil outside the foundation. When this soil absorbs water, it expands and creates pressure against the foundation walls. This pressure can create cracks in concrete walls or mortar joints and can ultimately cause structural damage to the...
Nearly three years ago we established this Learning Center to share information about basement waterproofing and foundation repair. Thousands of readers have benefitted from this blog – we’ve heard from homeowners all over the United States, Canada and points farther away. I guess that despite all the world’s differences...
In an earlier article, we wrote at length about the ways in which masonry foundation walls encounter problems with water seepage and suffer structural damage. To recap: Seepage problems usually occur in masonry walls for two reasons. One is that masonry walls have hundreds of feet of mortar joints where...
When most homeowners think of basement seepage, they imagine water entering their basements through some visible opening such as a crack in the wall or floor, gaps around a badly fitted window or the (sort of) visible cove joint. Wall cracks, floor cracks and cove seepage are the most common...
Wilmette IL is one of the southernmost towns on Chicago’s North Shore – only Evanston stands between it and the big city. When originally developed, the village of Wilmette existed only east of Ridge Avenue where woods were cleared to make room for homes and small businesses. The area west of...
For centuries, humans have set stone on top of stone to build structures. Ancient European cathedrals, the pyramids of Egypt and the Inca, Mayan and Aztec ruins of the Americas are testimony to that. When Europeans arrived on the shores of North America and began to build permanent homes and...
Most of the time, a homeowner with basement water problems and the basement waterproofing contractor that comes to solve them will have a few options to repair the damage and stop the water. Take a common wall crack, for example. The preferred method of stopping seepage from a non-structural crack...
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