Crawl Space Encapsulation
A 20-mil vapor barrier sealed to the walls and posts. The rim joists get insulated and the air is held under 55% damp. A wet dirt crawl space turns into clean, dry storage.
Explore ServiceBasement waterproofing in Akron stops water in 3 places: the cracks it comes in through, the pressure under your floor, and the damp air left behind. Every system we build carries a lifetime warranty you can pass on when you sell the house.
Four problems cause 9 out of every 10 basement waterproofing calls we get in Akron. They are basement flooding, leaking foundation cracks , mold from water intrusion (opens in a new tab) , and a damp crawl space . Each one has a different cause and a different fix. A free foundation inspection tells us which one you have. We have kept 9,800 basements dry in Akron since 1994. We can fix all 4 of these, and most cost less than people think.
Eight early signs tell you an Akron basement needs waterproofing. Standing water is the last of the 8 to show up. White powder, a musty smell and a growing wall crack all come first. They often show up years before the floor gets wet. Tick every sign you have seen. Then read the full nine-sign walkthrough for more on each one. We tell you how urgent yours is at the free inspection. Sometimes the honest answer is that it can wait until fall.
Not sure which service you need?
We cover 4 services: basement waterproofing, basement crack repair, crawl space encapsulation and crawl space repair. Describe what you are seeing and a Akron specialist finds the cause on site before anything gets quoted.
Akron basements flood for 5 reasons. Freezing and thawing (opens in a new tab) opens cracks. Snowmelt raises the water table (opens in a new tab) . Clay soil (opens in a new tab) drains too slowly. Old stone walls were never sealed outside. And bad grading sends rain straight at the house. Most homes in Summit County (opens in a new tab) have more than one. Not sure which is yours? Start by telling a crack apart from a pressure problem .
Akron freezes and thaws all winter long. Water inside a crack turns to ice, grows 9% bigger, and pries the crack wider. That happens dozens of times a season. The crack that leaked last March is bigger this March.
Snow melts all at once on ground that is still frozen. Add spring rain and the water table rises fast. That water pushes up under your floor. It is called hydrostatic pressure, and no paint holds it back.
Clay soil across Northeast Ohio drains very slowly. Rain moves sideways through the loose fill around your foundation, hits the footing, and sits there. In Merriman Valley and near the rivers the water table is already close to your floor.
Much of Akron was built before poured concrete. Highland Square, Goodyear Heights, Firestone Park and North Hill are full of stone and early block walls. Nobody sealed them on the outside. The old mortar softens with damp, so water seeps through the joints.
The cheapest cause to fix, and the most common. The ground has settled and now slopes back at the house. Downspouts dump roof water at the wall. The old clay tile drain caved in years ago. We check all 3 before quoting a system.
Putting off basement waterproofing in Akron leads to 5 bigger problems:
A system built properly gives you 5 things that last:
The inspection is free and ties you to nothing. Finding out yours is a small fix is a good result, and it happens more often than people expect.
Find Out Where I StandMost Akron homes need interior waterproofing, not exterior. There are only 2 places to stop water, and each one fixes a different problem. An interior drainage system takes away the water pressure (opens in a new tab) under your floor and sends the water to a sump pump (opens in a new tab) . It works the same way a French drain (opens in a new tab) works in a yard. Exterior waterproofing seals the outside of the wall again and puts in a new footing drain. Both are real basement waterproofing methods (opens in a new tab) . In most Akron homes the wall is fine and the drainage around it is not.
Interior Waterproofing
We handle the water from inside, under the floor.
Exterior Waterproofing
We stop the water outside, before it reaches the wall.
Neither one is basement paint. A wall paint like DRYLOK is a negative side sealant. It holds back damp air, not water under pressure, so it peels off wherever pressure is the real problem. A contractor who sells only 1 of the 2 real methods will always find a reason you need that one. We quote both, tell you which one your house needs, and write down why next to the price.
Find Out Which One I Need
A wall only leaks where there is a way in. We find every one of them. That means cracks, old pour joints, tie-rod holes, the window well under a basement egress window, and the seam where the wall meets the floor. Then we fill each one right through the wall, not just on the surface. Crack injection uses 2 materials: polyurethane injection for a crack that is leaking now, and epoxy injection where the crack still holds weight.
Lifetime no-re-leak guarantee
No sealer holds back water that is under pressure. You have to give it an easier way out. We put an interior drainage system in at footing level: slotted pipe sitting in clean stone, wrapped in filter fabric, running all the way around to a sump pump. The pump gets a battery backup, and the outlet pipe carries the water well away from the house.
Lifetime transferable warranty
Water you can see is only half the problem. Bare dirt gives off damp all day long, and that air rises straight up into your living rooms. So we seal the ground with a 20-mil vapor barrier that meets the ASTM E1745 standard. The rim joists get insulated and sealed. Then a dehumidifier keeps the air too dry for mold to grow.
25-year liner warranty
We work out which of the 3 your house needs on site, not over the phone. The inspection that decides it is free.
Book a Free InspectionBasement waterproofing in Akron usually costs $2,461 to $8,196. The national average is $5,236, based on Angi's 2026 cost data. Angi's numbers for Columbus, OH, the closest Ohio city it covers, run higher at $3,180 to $11,639, with an average of $7,368. That is what clay soil and a high water table do to a price. This Old House (2026) splits the same work by method. Interior drainage and sealing costs $2,000 to $6,000. Exterior digging costs $7,000 to $15,000. Drain tile alone runs $60 to $120 per linear foot ($197 to $394 per meter). These are planning numbers from price guides, not our quotes. Your own price comes from a free inspection. Six things change it: the length of wall we treat, the thickness of the floor, how easy it is to get in, how high the water table sits, whether a wall has moved, and how much finished space has to come out first.
| Waterproofing situation | Published range | Source and scope |
|---|---|---|
| Basement waterproofing, what most homeowners pay | $2,461 – $8,196 (avg $5,236) | Angi , national (2026) |
| Basement waterproofing, closest Ohio city figure | $3,180 – $11,639 (avg $7,368) | Angi , Columbus, OH (2026) |
| Interior drainage and sealing systems | $2,000 – $6,000 | This Old House , national (2026) |
| Digging outside, membrane and new grading | $7,000 – $15,000 | This Old House , national (2026) |
| Interior drainage, price per linear foot | $60 – $120 (per ft, $197 – $394 per m) | This Old House , national (2026) |
| One foundation crack, filled by injection | $800 – $1,500 (per crack) | This Old House , national (2026) |
| Sump pump supplied and installed | $1,200 – $2,500 | This Old House , national (2026) |
Numbers taken from published price guides in August 2026. The Columbus row is the closest Ohio city Angi covers. The other rows are national averages, not Akron quotes. Your real price needs an inspection of your own foundation.
Your free inspection covers 4 things. We take moisture readings on the wall and floor. We check the ground slope and downspouts outside. We run a hose test to show where water gets in. And we photograph everything we find. It takes 45 minutes and you owe us nothing.
We then design a system for your house, not a standard package. You get a set price in writing, the brand of every material, the repairs listed most urgent first, and our rules on extra charges. All of it before you sign anything.
Our own crew builds the system, and the person who quoted the job is there too. Floor covers go down first. Pipes and cables get marked before we cut. Waste leaves in buckets, not as wet mess. We sweep the work area every evening.
We flood the drain and run the sump pump while you watch. Then we hand you the moisture measurements we took before and after the job. Your lifetime warranty is signed up before the crew pulls out of the driveway.
Basement waterproofing, transferable
Covers any water coming through the area we treated, including our labor and the materials. You can pass it to the next owner once, free. That takes away a point buyers use to knock money off the price.
Crack repair, no re-leak
If a crack we filled leaks again along the same line, we come back and fill it again at no charge. Once the resin sets it is stronger than the concrete beside it, so the repair outlives the wall.
Crawl space liner
The maker covers the 20-mil vapor barrier for 25 years. We cover our own work on every seam, every edge and every piece of rim joist insulation.
Crawl space structural work
Covers floor joists, beams, sill plates and support posts. If a span we held up moves at any time in those 10 years, we come back and level it free.
Waterproofing is dusty, noisy work, and it happens inside a house people live in. What sets a good Akron basement waterproofing contractor apart is rarely the drainage. It is how the basement, the stairs and the front lawn look at 5pm. We write these 4 promises into every quote, so you can hold us to them.
We cover everything before we move anything. Stairs, landings and the whole path from the door to the work area go under board and floor film before a single tool comes in. Whatever you leave in the basement gets sheeted and pulled back from the wall. Anything fragile, we ask you to move yourself rather than move it for you.
Covers go down before the first tool arrives
Cutting a concrete floor makes dust, so we shut it in rather than say sorry later. Plastic barriers close off the work area from the rest of the basement. Doorways get taped. Every saw and grinder pulls the dust straight off the blade through a HEPA filter. On bigger jobs we run a fan that keeps the dust from drifting up the stairs.
Dust pulled off the blade, not swept up later
The crew stops early enough to clean up properly. Waste goes out in buckets, not as wet mess on your floor. Tools go back in the van. The floor gets swept and vacuumed, and the path outside is clear before anyone drives off. You never spend a weekend living around a pile of rubble.
Swept and vacuumed before the van doors shut
Our own staff do the work. No day labor, and no crew we met that morning. They are background checked, in uniform, and they park where you ask them to park. One of them runs your job from start to finish, so you never explain the same thing twice.
Our own staff, checked and in uniform
The 4 house rules every crew works to
Small things, all of them. They are also why people call us back for the next job instead of shopping around again.
Akron homeowners pick us for 4 reasons. We have 32 years of work in this city. Our warranty lasts a lifetime and passes to the buyer. We find the problem before we write a price. And we employ our own crews. Picking a basement waterproofing contractor really comes down to 2 questions. Is the water still gone in 10 years? And does the company that promised it still pick up the phone at 2am in March? We have been picking up since 1994.
32+ Years Under Akron Homes
Since 1994 we have waterproofed 9,800 homes in Akron and Summit County. Whatever sits under your house, we have worked in it before. That includes the heavy clay in Merriman Valley, the packed fill downtown, and the old rubble footings in Goodyear Heights.
Lifetime Transferable Warranty
Every system we build comes with a lifetime warranty against water coming through the area we treated. It covers our labor as well as the materials. You can pass it to the buyer, so it helps sell the house instead of sitting in a drawer.
Diagnosis Before Proposal
Test holes, moisture readings and a hose test all happen before we name a price. A basement waterproofing specialist runs every inspection, not a salesperson. We drop plenty of quotes once the real fix turns out to be a longer downspout. When a wall needs a structural engineer, we bring one in. Selling work nobody needs is how a contractor runs out of customers.
Accredited, Employed Crews
No subcontractors and no day labor. We are Better Business Bureau accredited and a member of the Basement Health Association. We are registered to work in Ohio under the Ohio Department of Commerce building rules. The person who quoted your job stands on site while the crew builds it.
Request Your Free Basement Inspection Today
Water in the basement, a crack you have been watching, or a crawl space nobody wants to open. Basement Waterproofing Akron comes out fast and tells you what is really wrong. You get a set price, and our work is guaranteed for life across Akron and our listed service area.
Basement Waterproofing Akron covers 12 Akron neighborhoods and all 17 service ZIP codes listed below, right across Summit County. The same Northeast Ohio clay runs under Canton and the Greater Cleveland area, so water behaves the same way north and south of us. Even so, the soil changes from one house to the next. Our crews work from what sits under your foundation, not from one plan for the whole region. Every ZIP code on this list gets the same basement waterproofing services and the same warranty.
Service ZIP codes we cover
Basement Waterproofing Akron
385 S Main St
Akron, OH 44311
Yes, any basement can be waterproofed, including the 1900s stone foundations all over Akron. The method depends on how the water gets in. Water coming through cracks gets sealed with crack injection. Water pushed up under the floor by water pressure gets carried away by an interior drainage system and a sump pump. Water arriving as damp air gets stopped by a vapor barrier and a dehumidifier.
Paint-on sealers fail in Akron. Wall paint holds back damp, not water that is under pressure. Our systems move the water first and seal second, which is why they still work 20 years later.
Waterproofing a basement takes 3 steps, in this order. First, seal every way water gets in. That means filling cracks, old pour joints and tie-rod holes with polyurethane or epoxy. Second, take away the water pressure under the floor. That means an interior drainage system of slotted pipe in clean stone, running to a sump pump with a battery backup. Third, dry the air with a 20-mil vapor barrier and a dehumidifier that holds the air under 55% damp.
Fixing the ground slope and the downspouts comes first on any Akron house. Roof water landing at the wall will beat everything else you do. A free inspection tells you which of the 3 steps your house needs.
Basement waterproofing in Akron costs $68 to $92 per linear foot ($223 to $302 per meter). Most jobs on 1 or 2 wet walls land between $6,000 and $12,000. Crack repair costs $495 to $850 per crack. Crawl space encapsulation costs $5.75 to $8.50 per square foot. Crawl space repair starts at $1,850 and foundation repair starts at $2,400.
Getting in and out changes the price more than anything else. A walk-out basement with room to work costs far less than a tight crawl space where every bucket moves by hand. Every quote is a set price with our extra-charge rules written in, and 0% finance runs for 18 months on any job.
Most Akron homes need interior waterproofing. It suits 8 out of every 10 basements we quote. Interior work is right when the wall is solid and water shows at the floor line, when the floor stays damp, or when the sump pump runs on dry days. Exterior work is worth the money when the wall itself is failing, when a wall bows in, or when the old clay tile drain around the footing has caved in.
Interior systems go in all year, even on frozen ground, and your yard stays as it is. Exterior work takes 5 to 10 days, depends on the weather, and lifts walkways and planting beds. We quote both and tell you which one your house needs.
Yes, a sump pump in Akron needs a battery backup. The same storms that flood a basement also cut the power. A backup unit runs the pump for 6 to 12 hours on its own battery, which covers most outages here.
We test the backup with the main pump at the final walkthrough. Both get a free check every year for as long as you own the house.
Basement waterproofing takes 2 to 3 working days on a normal Akron job. Crack repair takes half a day. Crawl space encapsulation takes 2 to 4 days. Crawl space repair takes 2 to 5 days, depending on how much wood we have to double up or replace.
We put down floor covers, drop off materials and mark the pipes and cables before the crew starts. Then the build, the cleanup and the final test all run without a break. You get an update every day and a walkthrough at the end.
Yes. Basement waterproofing carries a lifetime warranty against water coming through the area we treated, and it goes with the house when you sell. Crack repair carries a lifetime no-re-leak promise. Crawl space liners hold a 25-year material warranty. Crawl space structural work holds a 10-year workmanship warranty.
Every warranty is printed in plain words on the quote you sign. It covers our labor as well as the materials, and it names the exact area we treated, so nobody argues about it later.
We provide 5 services: basement waterproofing, basement crack repair, crawl space encapsulation, crawl space repair and foundation repair. We keep that list short on purpose. Doing 5 things for 30 years in Akron is how a crew gets really good at them.
Anything outside that list, such as plumbing leaks or roofing, we flag at the free inspection and point you to the right trade. Sending you to someone who does the job properly beats selling you the wrong fix.
Akron snowmelt usually arrives with early spring rain while the ground is still part frozen. All that water shows up at once, and it raises the water table faster than the soil can soak it up.
The clay soil across Northeast Ohio makes it worse, because water moves through clay very slowly. It sits near the surface and travels sideways until your footing blocks it. Meanwhile, each freeze and thaw opens your existing cracks a little wider.
Basement waterproofing in Akron starts with a free inspection, and this is where you book it. You get moisture readings, photos of everything we find, and a straight answer. We will tell you if it is a crack, water pressure under the floor, damp air, or nothing much at all. The quote that follows names the drainage system, the sump pump and the vapor barrier your house needs, at a set price with a lifetime warranty you can pass on. No deposit, no obligation, and nobody pushing you to sign on the day.
A 45-minute check, not a sales call
Moisture readings, a look at your ground slope and downspouts, a hose test that shows where water gets in, and photos of everything we find.
A set price in writing before you decide
The brand of every material, the work drawn on a plan of your basement, repairs listed most urgent first, and our extra-charge rules up front.
Lifetime warranty you can pass on
Covers our labor as well as the materials, names the area we treated, and goes to the next owner when you sell.
Water in the basement right now?
We run 24/7 emergency basement waterproofing services across Akron and our listed service area. Call us and we will get someone to you today.
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