Serving High Point
Groundwater & Basement Water Intrusion in High Point, 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 large flat roof nearby seems to drain onto our street.
It very likely does, and at close to the full rainfall rate, because a low-slope roof absorbs nothing and is designed to shed quickly. The question worth asking is whether that runoff is detained before it reaches the public system. Detention serving large commercial buildings is usually a matter of public record, and whether one exists and is maintained makes a substantial difference downstream.
Our house is old mill housing. What is different about it?
It sits low, close to its neighbors, often on a shallow crawl space or piers, and it was built for walking distance to a plant rather than for how water would leave the site. The strips between houses are frequently flat and lower than the yards, so water collects there and stays. A shallow drain along that strip usually does more than anything done at an individual foundation.
The creek behind us rose several feet in an hour.
A confined channel draining developed clay does exactly that. Runoff arrives quickly because almost nothing soaks in, and the channel has little room to spread between blocks, so the level rises sharply rather than the flood widening. It falls just as fast. That leaves no useful window in which to move anything, so protection has to be permanent rather than deployed on the day.
The same questions, in context, on the High Point mold removal page.