Serving Asheville
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in Asheville, NC
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
A perfectly ordinary afternoon here and a serious river by evening.
Elevation does it. The same system dropping four inches on the valley floor drops a great deal more on the ridges around it, because the air is forced upward as it crosses them. So the streams arrive carrying rain that nobody in the city saw fall, and the gauge in town understates the event every time.
The slope behind the house is soft and it has started to move.
Ground that stays saturated does not regain its strength between storms, so it responds to a given rainfall far more readily than dry ground would. What an owner can watch for is a slope changing shape across months, new cracks along the top of it, or trees that have begun to lean. Those are worth reporting rather than watching quietly.
It filled and emptied again within the hour.
Ground that steep and that short has nowhere to store anything, so the entire storm reaches the channel together and the level leaps rather than spreading out. It subsides just as abruptly. Streams of that size are not gauged by anybody, so the only account of what one did is whatever a neighbor happened to photograph while it was doing it.
The same questions, in context, on the Asheville mold removal page.