Serving Colorado Springs
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Colorado Springs, CO
Basement seepage, failed sumps, and hydrostatic pressure against the foundation are extracted and dried, and the path from the ground is identified so the loss does not repeat. Groundwater and basement seepage are extracted and dried only after the path from the soil is identified — a wall, a slab, a drain, or a failed sump. Drying the interior without stopping that path returns the same water to the same floor.
Frequently asked questions
How do I tell whether this lot sits on shale or on granite?
The house will tell you if you watch it through a wet July and a dry spell. Shale swells, opens a joint, and weeps; granite sheds, and the water shows as runoff, a cut in the backfill, or a stain on the downhill wall. A foundation that moves with moisture is the shale side. A lot that grows a gully after the same cell is the granite side.
Hail in July, a stain in August. Same event?
Usually. Hail bruises the shingle mat without opening a hole that afternoon, and the covering fails in the next rain. An August stain after a July hailstorm is one of the more common delayed roof leaks on this Front Range face. Looking intact from the yard does not mean the mat still sheds. The delay is the bruise, not a second storm inventing a leak.
Fountain Creek is downhill. Is the problem the creek or the lot?
On the west side, the lot becomes the creek. Steep granite and alluvium shed a July cell, and a downspout aimed at the slope is a gully starter that undermines backfill before anyone sees a channel. The creek is the outlet. The speed starts at the pad. Watching stage downtown will not tell you what the yard already did.
The same questions, in context, on the Colorado Springs mold removal page.