Basement Waterproofing Photo Album: Making Your Basement Apart of Your Home - Sumner, WA

This homeowner's basement was in desperate need of an upgrade. With the crawl space partially attached, the basement hadn't been used in years. All the water that was getting into the crawl space and flooding it, was also seeping into the basement. But at John's Waterproofing, we value adding usable space to your home by making sure it stays dry and healthy. For this project, we suggested a full basement waterproofing system and adding a CleanSpace vapor barrier into the small crawl space. The first step at making this basement feel more like it is a part of the house is to install a proper drainage system. We do this by installing WaterGuard along the interior perimeter of the basement. This is a drainage pipe that sits alongside the footing of the basement and collects any water that tries to seep through. It pushes the water through the pipe to the SuperSump Plus sump pump. This pump is able to take all that collected water and safely push it out of the basement and away from the homes foundation. To add some moisture protection to the walls we would install BrightWall. This is white paneling that goes along the existing basement walls that helps to guide moisture down below to the WaterGuard drainage system. With its clean white look, it offers the homeowner a semi-finished look until they are ready to finish their basement. As for protecting the crawl space, we would install our CleanSpace vapor barrier, which is a 20 Mil thick material with woven fibers through it. This is overlapped at each seam to ensure no water can seep over top of it. We anchor it along the foundation walls and connect a drainage system using a perforated pipe to the SuperSump Plus sump pump. After this entire process is completed, the homeowner will gain hundreds of square feet in their home by having a dry, usable basement.