Basement Leak Repair for Lizella homeowners
There is a pattern specific to clay country that catches people out. Through a dry August the clay shrinks and pulls away from the foundation, leaving a gap. The first heavy rain after that runs straight down the gap to the footing, and a basement that was dry all summer leaks that week.
It reads like a sudden failure and it is a seasonal mechanism. The same house may do it every year, and each time the water reaches the footing faster than it would through undisturbed soil.
So on a Lizella property we look at the gap as well as the wall. Closing the pathway with proper grading, getting roof water piped well away, and keeping the moisture around the foundation more even all reduce how much water arrives. Then we seal the entry point it was using.
Our basement leak repair scope is the same on every Lizella home, whatever the Bibb County ground turns out to be doing.
- Pinpoints the true source of the leak
- Permanent repairs that hold
- Stops seasonal recurring leaks
- Fast, efficient, professional crews
