Basement Waterproofing for Macon homeowners
Middle Georgia is crawl space country, so a Macon home with a real basement is the exception. That works against the ones that have them. Local builders put in far fewer basements than they did in north Georgia, and the drainage details that a basement needs were often treated as an afterthought.
Macon sits on the Fall Line, and a basement wall here is holding back two different soils depending on which side of town you are on. West and north it is Piedmont clay that swells when wet and pushes laterally against block. East and south toward the Ocmulgee it is sand with a water table that comes up fast. Both put water on the inside of a wall, and they do it by different routes.
We stop it where it enters. Cracks and cold joints get sealed from inside, a perimeter drain goes in at the footing to collect what the wall sheds, and a sump with a proper discharge line carries it away from the house. Where the outside grade is feeding the problem we fix that too. You get photographs of every leak point and a fixed written price before any of it starts.
The scope is fixed before we start on a Macon home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.
- Complete interior drainage system
- Sump pump with backup options
- Wall sealing and vapor protection
- Lifetime warranty on waterproofing
