Photo Album: Circular Basement In Easley Gets WaterGuard

This home in Easley, SC was experiencing what happens to basements once hydrostatic pressure beings to effect ground water. Easley is located in Upstate South Carolina, which is a hot spot for thunderstorms and heavy rains. When all of this rain water gathers in the ground, it begins to pressurize. As gravy pulls down on the water, it wants to seep throughout the ground. If there is something blocking the waters way, such as a basement wall, it will push against it until there is somewhere for it to go. Water typically finds a weak spot and makes its way through the basement walls. That is what happened in this Easley basement. The homeowners had bung to put in wood flooring in this circular basement when they noticed that water was coming into the area. They called us at All-Dry of the Carolinas to come out and give them help with this problem.                 We sent out our design specialist Jonathan Geddie to this home to check out the problem and to offer a solution. When Jonathan got there he noticed that water was seeping up through the floor where the wall meets the floor. This ground water was starting to leave mold and to avoid it spreading further they decided to waterproof their basement. Jonathan quoted them a job that consisted of WaterGuard, CleanSpace, and a SuperSump pump.                 The perimeter of the basement was jack hammered out so that the WaterGuard could be placed in the space. Since this is a circular basement and WaterGuard is typically cut into straight sections, our crew let by crew foreman Will Harris, had to take a different approach to solving this issue. Cutting the WaterGuard into small sections, our crew placed tiny slits into the WaterGuard so that it would curve like an accordion. These slits are then covered with our waterproof tape so that when it is covered with concrete it won’t enter the WaterGuard. But before the WaterGuard is placed into the trench, the CleanSpace was added to the wall. CleanSpace was added to the wall to direct any ground water that seeps in down into the WaterGuard drain system. CleanSpace is added before the WaterGuard so that the drainage system can be installed against the plastic. It is harder to tuck CleanSpace behind the drainage system once it is installed.                 The SuperSump Pump is placed into the ground and has the WaterGuard connected to it. The WaterGuard is leveled so that any water that enters it will be drained into the SuperSump Pump. There is a three inch pipe that connects the WaterGuard to the SuperSump liner. The SuperSump would then flush any water it takes into the LawnScape outlet that is located in the yard.   Once all the parts of the system are installed, they are cemented over so that it is invisible. Our crews wash down any and all forms of dust and muck that might have formed during our work so that your basement looks better than when we arrived.                 Once this basement in Easley had its system installed it stopped the intake of water into the space. The homeowners were able to start placing in the wood floors again without fear of them being ruined by water.