Serving Orlando
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Orlando, FL
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
The water in the low ground has not gone down in a fortnight.
That is a closed basin behaving normally. There is no channel taking water away here; it leaves by soaking into the sand and by evaporating, both of which happen at a fixed rate regardless of how much arrived. Once a basin is full it empties on its own schedule. Planning for weeks rather than days changes what needs moving and what can safely stay where it is.
Our neighbor's yard drained and ours did not.
On low sandy swells the divide between two basins can run between adjoining lots, so one drains to a basin with somewhere to go and the other to one that fills. Nothing about the buildings explains it. Working out which basin your ground drains to, and how it has behaved in past wet years, tells you far more than any comparison of construction or age.
Is it worth installing a drain if the water just sits?
Only if there is somewhere lower still accepting water, which on this ground frequently there is not. A drain moves water; it does not create capacity. Where everything nearby is full, the practical work is keeping standing water away from the building and making sure the ground at the wall falls away, rather than paying for pipe that will have nowhere to discharge.
These questions come from the Orlando page.