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Interior drainage systems
Below-slab pipe, stone and a sump pump. This is the answer for roughly 8 out of every 10 wet Akron basements, because most of the water here arrives under pressure from below.
How basement waterproofing works Akron, 30+ years
Three Decades Under Akron Homes
We started with one truck, one pump and a belief that most waterproofing companies were selling products instead of solving problems. Nine thousand eight hundred basements later, that is still the entire business model. You can read what that looks like on real houses , and every installation is planned around Ohio building standards.
Our Story
Built by people who were tired of bad basements
Our founder spent six years working for a national waterproofing franchise before starting this company. What drove him out was watching crews install the same system in every house regardless of what the water was actually doing, because that was the product the company sold.
In Akron that approach fails constantly. The ground here changes within a mile: clay-rich glacial soil in Merriman Valley, compacted urban fill near downtown, raised street fill under the downtown grid, and pre-war rubble footings on the West Side. Each one moves water differently and needs a different answer.
So we built the company around diagnosis. Test pits, moisture mapping and a hose test come before any price. Sometimes that means we walk away from a $30,000 job because the real fix is a downspout extension, and we have never regretted one of those conversations.
Today we are twenty-eight people, six trucks and one excavator, all employees, working across Akron and the surrounding towns. We still answer the phone at 2am in March.
30+
Years keeping basements dry 9,800+
Basements waterproofed 100%
Bonded & insured crews 24/7
Emergency water response Diagnose before you sell
Nobody on our team earns commission on the size of a job. If a $300 grading correction fixes it, that is what goes on the proposal.
Our own crews, every time
No subcontractors, no day labor. Every technician is a background-checked, IICRC-certified employee of ours.
Fixed price, in writing
Materials named by brand, scope drawn out, change-order policy stated up front. The number you sign is the number you pay.
Warranty that outlives the sale
Our lifetime guarantee transfers with the house. It is a promise we can only make because we build systems that keep working.
The people on the truck
M Marcus Deleon Field Operations Lead 19 years
P Priya Raman Certified Waterproofing Inspector 12 years
D Dominic Falcone Excavation Foreman 24 years
S Sarah Kozlowski Remediation Supervisor 9 years
The Work Itself
What 9,800 Akron Basements Were Made Of
A company that only ever recommends one solution has one number to show you. Here are 4,
split by what the houses actually needed. The smallest line is the one most contractors
would rather sell you.
1,940
Crack and joint repairs
Polyurethane and epoxy injection on poured walls, tie-rod holes and cold joints. Half-day jobs, and the cheapest real fix in this trade when the wall is otherwise sound.
What crack repair covers980
Crawl spaces sealed or rebuilt
Liner, sealed vents, insulated rim joists and a dehumidifier, plus joist and sill plate work where a crawl space has been damp for decades.
Crawl space encapsulation detail468
Foundation repairs
Carbon fiber straps, wall anchors and piers on walls that have already moved. The smallest number on this list, because most cracked walls do not need it.
Foundation repair options Paperwork You Can Check
Our Licences, Cover and Certifications
Six credentials sit behind every job, and all 6 can be verified without asking us. Any
waterproofing contractor in Akron should hand you the first 5 before they quote.
IICRC certified technicians
Every inspector holds Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) credentials in applied structural drying, renewed on schedule rather than framed once and forgotten.
Better Business Bureau accredited
Accredited, with our complaint history public. We would rather you read the 2 complaints we have answered than take our word for how we handle problems.
Basement Health Association member
Membership means our installation details are checked against an industry standard for drainage and vapor control, not against whatever the last crew did.
Registered to work in Ohio
We work under the Ohio Department of Commerce building rules, pull City of Akron permits on structural work, and put the permit number on your paperwork.
Insured at $2 million, workers comp on every head
General liability of $2 million and Ohio workers compensation covering every employee on your property. Ask any contractor for both certificates before they cut concrete.
Materials installed to published standards
Liners, membranes and vapor retarders go in to the specifications set by ASTM International, so what we install can be checked against something other than our own sales sheet.
Certificates are emailed with every proposal. If you would rather see them before an inspector comes out, call (330) 549-8185 and we will send them today.
Why We Left the Franchise Model
One Product Sold Everywhere, or One Answer Per House
Both columns describe real practice in this trade. The left one is not incompetence, it is a
business model, and it is the reason so many Akron basements have a system in them that was
never going to work.
The product model
- One system sold in every house, because that is the product the franchise licenses
- A commissioned salesperson quotes, a stranger installs
- Price built from a per-foot table before anyone reads the wall
- Warranty registered with a national office that has never seen Ohio clay
- Exterior work refused because the franchise does not own an excavator
How we scope a job
- Interior, exterior or neither, decided after a hose test on your elevation
- The inspector who quoted it stands in the basement while the crew builds it
- Price built from linear feet, access, pump duty and discharge route on your lot
- Warranty held by the company whose truck is 20 minutes from your door
- One excavator, six trucks, and the honesty to say when digging is the wrong answer
Where We Draw the Line
6 Things This Company Will Not Do
A short list of services and a short list of tactics are the same decision. We do 5 things, we do them in one county, and we say no to the rest out loud. Homeowners comparing quotes tell us this list is the most useful page on our site, which is why it sits here rather than in small print. What our customers say about it is on the reviews page .
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We do not pay commission on job size, so nobody here gets richer by talking you into drainage you do not need.
- 2
We do not sell paint-on sealer as waterproofing. It holds back damp, not water under pressure, and it fails inside 3 winters here.
- 3
We do not subcontract. If someone is on your property in our shirt, we employ them and we insure them.
- 4
We do not quote plumbing leaks, roofing or mold remediation. We identify them at the inspection and name a trade that does them properly.
- 5
We do not run today-only pricing. Your quote is held for 30 days at the same number, and pressure discounts are a sales tactic, not a price.
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We do not run a credit check to give you a price. Financing is offered after the scope is agreed, and only if you ask about it.
Contact Us
Meet the Crew Before You Hire Anyone
Forty-five minutes with one of our inspectors will tell you more about your basement than any page on this website. You will get moisture readings, photographs and a plain answer about whether the work is urgent. Then you can take that to any contractor in Akron you like.
No obligation
Fixed pricing in writing
Mon to Sat, 7:00am to 7:00pm · 24/7 emergency response