Basement Waterproofing in Whitehall, OH

Whitehall is an inner-ring suburb on the east side of Columbus, built largely in the years after the Second World War along East Main Street, the historic National Road. It is home to the Defense Supply Center Columbus and to Town and Country Shopping Center, one of the early suburban shopping centers in the region.

Many Whitehall homes are modest postwar houses with concrete block basements. Block walls can take on water through their hollow cores and release it at the base of the wall, and their original drain tile may be clogged after decades in the ground. Horizontal cracks or bowing in block walls deserve a closer look because they can point to pressure from the soil outside.

Because many of these homes are now seventy years old or more, gutters, downspouts, and the grading around the house have often changed several times. A basement that leaks along one wall is often responding to something outside on that side of the house. We start there and work inward.