Basement Waterproofing for Milledgeville homeowners
Milledgeville has housing stock older than almost anywhere else we work. Antebellum and Victorian homes downtown, some with cellars and partial basements built of brick or field stone laid in lime mortar. Those walls were built to breathe, and treating them like a modern poured wall causes damage.
The site conditions push water at them. Baldwin County is red clay on rolling ground above the Oconee River, so runoff moves fast downhill and the ground near the bottom holds moisture year round. A cellar wall on the low side of a historic lot is standing in wet clay for much of the wet season.
The right approach on an old wall is to move the water away and let the masonry stay breathable. Grading and drainage outside take the load off, a footing drain and sump inside carry away what still arrives, and repointing uses soft mortar compatible with the original masonry. We photograph everything and give you a written fixed price before touching a historic wall.
Our basement waterproofing scope is the same on every Milledgeville home, whatever the Baldwin County ground turns out to be doing.
- Complete interior drainage system
- Sump pump with backup options
- Wall sealing and vapor protection
- Lifetime warranty on waterproofing
