Basement Waterproofing in Lancaster, OH

Lancaster is the county seat of Fairfield County, southeast of Columbus. The city is overlooked by Mount Pleasant, and its downtown includes the Square 13 Historic District with homes from the nineteenth century. Lancaster is also known as the birthplace of General William Tecumseh Sherman.

With a long building history, Lancaster has a wide range of foundations: cut stone and brick under older homes downtown, block basements in mid-century neighborhoods, and poured concrete in newer developments on the edges of the city. Water behaves differently in each, so the first step is always to understand what your basement walls are made of.

Parts of Lancaster sit on hillsides and parts lie low near the Hocking River, so how water reaches a basement can depend a great deal on where the house sits. A home partway up a slope often takes on water on its uphill side. A home on lower ground may deal more with groundwater. We look at the setting of the house before discussing repairs.