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Edina and Hopkins Minnesota Waterproofing For Wet Basements And Foundations
Edina Minnesota with it's rolling hills and lush scenery has both newer and older homes. Construction is ongoing, homes with additions are very common and they might have their own wet basement issues. Great Lakes Waterproofing has worked with several Edina Remodelers and Home Owners stopping water outside of their wet basements.
Hopkins has mostly older homes starting from the 1950's and lot's of apartment and condo buildings. Being close to downtown Minneapolis, this area is very desireable for both young and old families. After several decades, the basement foundations are starting to age with cracks and holes appearing, allowing water to enter the basement.
Wet Parking Area in Hopkins MN Condo Building
Great Lakes Waterproofing sees this all the time, condo or apartment buildings with wet parking areas, some very old, some are nearly new.
This corner of a Hopkins MN Condo Building has separation of the foundation mortar between the CMU blocks allowing a lot of water down into the parking area.
The black staining is what's left of the original damp proofing asphalt/tar material originally used to waterproof the foundation. It does not have the ability to self-heal like bentonite does and eventually dries and flakes off the basement walls.
Great Lakes Waterproofing seals these Hopkins MN Foundations up on the outside, for Real Waterproofing. Stopping water from the exterior with little to minimal work done on the inside.
Edina MN Wet Basement Wall in Rec Room
This Edina MN Homeowner has a living room on the basement level, the backside of the home is garden level so they can enjoy the outside view.
With a wet basement, it would have been very expensive to go with a new drain tile system for this wet block foundation. The installed drain tile seemed to be working but it wasn't catching all of the water.
Real Waterproofing starts on the outside, a drain tile system is water-management and does not stop the flow of water through this Edina MN Basement Wall, it just captures it and pumps it right back into the yard.
Exterior bentonite waterproofing injections stopped the flow of water outside this basement.
Edina and Hopkins Wet Basement in the Winter Time
Homes in Edina and Hopkins MN also get wet basements even in the winter time. This Hopkins MN Home has a working drain tile system but see the discharge pipe, not only is it undersized for outdoor use but it flows right into the snow bank.
Either the drain tile pump moves water into the yard or the drain pipe freezes and the pump "dead heads" because the pipe is blocked with ice. Eventually the pump will stop working and water will not be pumped out, it will spill onto the wet basement floor.
This Hopkins Drain Tile System is not that old and was very expensive to install but the homeowner is now looking for Real Waterproofing, stopping water outside of the basement from Great Lakes Waterproofing. We target the water at a fraction of the cost of an expensive drain tile system.
