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From century-old city foundations to lakefront cottages to newer suburban builds sitting on the same stubborn clay — we waterproof basements across the entire Rochester area.
City neighborhoods are where Rochester's famously old housing stock lives — and where we do some of our most satisfying work. Park Avenue, the South Wedge, Swillburg, the 19th Ward, Maplewood, North Winton Village, Beechwood, Charlotte: street after street of homes from the 1890s through the 1940s, sitting on stone, brick, and early block foundations that were never waterproofed because the technology barely existed. Add in mature trees rooting into old clay footing drains and tight lots that complicate excavation, and city basements need contractors who've seen it all before. We have.
East side water problems come in every flavor. Irondequoit homes near the bay and Lake Ontario contend with genuinely high water tables — basements that take water from below, not just the sides — while its post-war housing waves are hitting the age where original drainage retires. Webster and Penfield mix older village homes with newer subdivisions where builders' grading and clay backfill still send spring melt straight at foundations. In Fairport and Pittsford, homes near the canal corridor and creek lowlands see seasonal groundwater that surprises new owners, and Brighton's leafy pre-war streets share the city's old-foundation challenges with bigger trees and bigger root systems. East Rochester's compact village lots round out a side of the county that keeps us busy every March.
Greece is Monroe County's biggest town and one of our most active service areas — huge tracts of 1950s–1970s homes whose original sump setups, footing drains, and block walls are all aging out at the same time, plus lakeshore neighborhoods with their own water table stories. Gates and Chili sit on classic slow-draining western New York clay where yard drainage and interior systems do heavy lifting. Out along the canal, Spencerport and Brockport village homes bring older foundations, while Hilton and the lake plain to the north see the flat, wet lots where water simply has nowhere to go — until we give it somewhere.
Henrietta's postwar and newer housing generally means poured foundations — which means the classic poured-wall problems: shrinkage cracks that freeze–thaw pries open, and builder-grade sump pumps quietly reaching the end of their lifespan all over town. Rush and the more rural southern lots add long driveways, big yards, and drainage projects with room to route water properly.
We also take on projects in nearby communities including Victor, Farmington, and Canandaigua to the southeast and Batavia to the west. If you're near the Rochester area and fighting water, reach out — worst case, we point you in the right direction.
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