New Hope Minnesota Basement And Foundation Waterproofing Projects

New Hope Minnesota is one of our favorite towns, mostly blue collar working class with a lot of cool industrial manufacturing history.  The mostly older homes and businesses date back to the golden years of the 50's and 60's with lots of big home lots and rambler houses (ranch for the rest of us) and big open one story factory buildings that provide all kinds of interesting jobs and products known world-wide.  Did you know Prince filmed Under a Cherry Moon in New Hope, yep one of the big factory/warehouses was the studio.  With a combination of older houses and industrial buildings, Great Lakes Waterproofing has fixed water issues on several foundations through-out the area.  The ground is wet, wet, wet, lot's of moving concrete and cracking foundations make it a popular place for Great Lakes Waterproofing.

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Wet Basement Waterproofing

This New Hope MN home looks normal but see the water flowing over the gutters?

The flowing water is captured inside the sidewalk in the dirt and it's such a large amount that eventually moves through cracks in wall heading towards the main basement.

For a typical rainstorm, the garage alone is collecting 165 gallons per 1" of rain on this 1/2 but it's also getting water from the main house roof so the total might be 225+ gallons per inch of water right in this area!  New Hope is known for very wet ground conditions.

Of course the gutters need to be fixed but this is a perfect area for bentonite waterproofing injections from Great Lakes Waterproofing, we trademarked "Real Waterproofing" because we stop the water outside of the foundation.

Other New Hope Waterproofer's wanted several thousands of dollars and would tear out part of the basement, Great Lakes Waterproofing fixed this for a fraction of the other quotes.

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Using Insulation to Waterproof a Basement

This brand new New Hope Home was next door to a project we were working on and we had to take photos.

Everyone has the lastest and greatest waterproofing products and with Minnesota's Extreme Weather Conditions, this is a great testing ground.  This product is a rigid foam insulation that allows water to flow down into a drain-tile system, usually channeled back inside to the sump basket and pump.

Here's what we find, after a few short years the poured foundation wall cracks, it's pretty normal and more so in New Hope because the ground is so wet.  The insulation acts as a moot collecting water from the entire foundation, one small crack can mean a lot of water, we've seen cracks that look like garden hoses with this type of insulation/waterproofing material.

The black coating is called "damp proofing" and while it does stop dampness, it will not bridge cracks and stop water.  This wall should have a Real Waterproofing Membrane of Bentonite so this would never be an issue.

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Sump Pump Not Working

Wet Basement

Great Lakes Waterproofing sees a lot of information on how great a drain tile with sump basket is, it fixes everything!

Unfortunately the reality is much different for us, this wet basement customer in New Hope MN has a sump basket but, as is common here, there was never a pump or discharge pipe because water never was in the sump basket.

Walls settling and cracking provide an easy pathway for ground water to move straight through the walls, bypassing the underfloor drain tile system in the New Hope Wet Basement.

The solution for this customer was Great Lakes Waterproofing Exterior Bentonite Injections, we stopped the water outside of this New Hope Basement.

Call today for free written estimates, we've been waterproofing New Hope Homes and Businesses for over 18 years.