My parents have been dealing with water issues in their basement for years. This past year, conditions worsened to the point where we needed to do something. The house is approximately 60 years old, cinder block basement walls. Over time, the weeping tile system began to fail and being in a high water table area, water would simply collect to the point where water would push through the cement floor.
We contacted Clarke Basement Systems and were provided a proposal by Rob. After some discussion regarding the best solution we opted to proceed with the WaterGuard Below Floor Drain system https://www.clarkebasementsystems.com/basement-waterproofing/french-drain.html .
Our team from Clarke arrived on time as promised and were extremely professional. Many thanks to Lucio, Adam and Dymytri who truly took complete ownership of the project and kept both me and my parents completely informed. The workspace was kept organized and these guys knew exactly what they were doing. Within the first couple of hours, groundwater was be being evacuated through the sump pump system while the interior trenching took place.
For a basement of our size, the entire system installation from start to finish only took 2.5 days and this included a full R20 insulation barrier. From my research, an exterior solution would have been much more disruptive and costly given landscaping, interlocking brick, asphalt driveway etc. The basement immediately feels warmer and obviously, we have experienced no water even though we had major thawing and wide spread flooding throughout Ontario that very week. While it's very early into our experience, we were so impressed with how smoothly everything went that we wanted to share the experience so far. I will update this review post April to let everyone know how the system continues to perform but feel very confident it is doing the job.
Without any doubt, I would recommend CBS for fixing similar issues in your home (make sure to ask for Lucio, Adam and Dymytri for installation ;-)
- Approximate cost of services:
- $15,000.00
- Company Response
Hi Bernie - the team here at Clarke Basement Systems is so excited that they were able to provide a waterproofing solution for the groundwater issues in your parent's basement. Lucio, Adam and Dymytri make it a priority to keep customers informed and make sure the work area is kept organized and clean. Thank you so much for your important feedback - Rob, Lucio, Adam and Dymytri enjoyed working with you and appreciate your compliments!