Interior Basement Waterproofing Contractor

Written by expertwater on April 2nd, 2010

Black mold Within the wet locations gets worse with time.

One thing I have seen in a percentage of our jobs is that clients are putting repairs off till it is very late. Most issues have a little water water damage associated with them. Once there is water implicated, mold can’t be far behind.

I believe that it has a little to do with the present economy. People are a bit fearful to pay out any money to get everything fixed up when they can’t perceive where their next dollar is coming from. Even people that are on a rigid income like SSI or SSD or Social Security plus business retirement fund. Those people’s income should not differ month to month too much but yet they are nervous. Ordinary working people are additionally scared stiff. So these projects also sit and rot and the MOLD takes over.

We just did a rather big job in a basement that there was a waterproofing problem and it went unfixed for the last few years. All the base molding was black, the wallboard was black up 2 feet off the bottom and the carpet had a thousand mushrooms growing on it. I believe that this serious of damage is dangerous to the people living upstairs. I recognize it was bad for our employees and we dressed them accordingly.

The finished basement had to be torn out. Along with the carpet and molding and doors and drywall and the whole thing else. Next we completed the waterproofing. That consisted of a perimeter drain and a sump pump. That was a lot of work. It cost a lot too and created an unhealthy living condition for the homeowner. If it was fixed just after it begun we could have saved the finished basement part except for the carpet. That would have saved a lot of dough.