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Vadnais Heights MN Basement And Foundation Waterproofing Projects

Vadnais Heights, Gem Lake, Little Canada and North Oaks MN are mostly family homes and apartment buildings, some going back to the 1950's but most are a little newer, we see both block and poured basement wall construction with poured walls being used extensively with new construction. 

The Vadnais Heights Area is a little wetter than normal holding water longer in the spring and fall when we normally see heavy rain showers.  The roads are rarely straight, mostly dodging the many small lakes and ponds.  Basement walls with cracks and holes can allow a lot of water flow through the foundation with the continous dynamic pressure of water, the solution is Real Waterproofing, stopping water before it moves through the foundation!

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Townhouse Basement Waterproofing

Basement walls crack and with Minnesota's Extreme Weather Conditions we see a lot of ground movement which eventually cracks wet basement foundations. 

This Vadnais Heights Wet Basement has a few of these vertical cracks, they typically go from floor to ceiling and it they are in the right area, they will allow a lot of water to flow through the foundation into the basement. 

Sometimes we use foams and epoxy's for interior concrete crack repair and have been since they first started getting popular.  Unfortunately, with years of experience, they have the same limitations as a concrete patch which is the brittle epoxy will "crack" if the foundation continues to settle. 

That's why we always recommend exterior waterproofing using bentonite injections around the foundation.  This stops the water even if the crack repair fails down the road.

Vadnais Heights Apartment Building Waterproofing

Apartment buildings might have a full below-grade area, usually for parking and a utility room.  Wet basement utility rooms are pretty common for us, with all the conduit coming through the building basement walls, they can get very wet. 

Installing a basement drain-tile system might be next to impossible but this is a poured concrete basement wall, the water is coming in above the floor so any drain tile system would not work since it can't capture the water.

The solution is to use exterior waterproofing from Great Lakes Waterproofing for Real Waterproofing!  We stop water on the outside before it moves through the foundation.

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Basement Waterproofing in the Winter

Minnesota's Extreme Weather Conditions pound on our basements, we do a lot of estimates in January when the mid-month thaw and late night freeze cause an expansion and contraction of water, pushing into the cracks and holes in your wet basement walls.

Water can't move out into the yard, the snow bank keeps next to your warm foundation where it moves through the cracks and holes when you least expect it.

Call the basement waterproofer that have been working on basements  and foundations since 1978.  Great Lakes Waterproofing stops the water, we don't collect it and pump it back outside.  We stop it for Real Waterproofing.