Wet Basement In Frye Island, ME Dried With WaterGuard
A couple on Frye Island was having a problem in their basement. Whenever it would rain, the basement would flood, and the homeowners needed a way to stop this. They soon found TC Hafford Basement Systems and got into contact with us right away to see what could be done to help their flooding problem. We gave them a free estimate on what possible solutions were and how much they would cost, and the homeowners decided they wanted us to do the job. We sent over our crew and got to work!
First, the floor around the basement, running along the walls, needed to be dug up to give us a trench. We then in placed our unique WaterGuard system in this trench, and covered it over with loose rocks and cement. This will hide the WaterGuard within the floor without stopping it from functioning. The purpose of the WaterGuard is to catch the water as it tries to leak in through the walls and floor. It does this before the water reaches the interior of the basement, and guides the water to the sump. Next, we installed a TripleSafe sump pump. This device contains three separate pumps, each serving a specific job. The primary pump removes most of the water from the basement. The secondary pump is there in case the primary pump fails in any way, to make sure the basement doesn’t flood. The third and final pump is a battery-powered backup pump in case of a power outage. This will keep the basement water free in any amount of rainfall. This water leaves the TripleSafe through a PVC discharge line. On the outside of the home, we attached an IceGuard piece to the discharge line. The IceGuard is specially designed to keep water flowing from the basement even if the lower end of the line is blocked by any sort of debris.
Now this couple has a dry basement, and systems in place to keep it that way. They won’t need to worry about a flooding basement again!