Leaking crack repair in Taneytown, Maryland

As noticed in the before photo, Ms. Kline was experiencing water puddling on her basement floor. Upon further investigation, she found a foundation crack and knew after seeing our yard signs in the area to call us at Fortress. We sent out our system designer, Richard, and he did a thorough investigation. He found that this water intrusion wasn’t caused by groundwater intrusion. It was an expansion crack that had made its way through one side of the foundation to the other and was allowing rainwater runoff to enter the crack.

Donny was our service technician on call who came out and assessed Ms. Kline’s foundation crack. As seen in the after photo, he ground the wall down to expose the crack better. He jackhammered a small section of the floor directly below the crack to get to the wall-floor joint. He installed a tiny piece of our WaterGuard system there, then epoxied the crack with a flexible, caulk-like substance that will seal the crack, stay connected to all of the little pores in the concrete wall, and move with it. He then finished FlexiSpanning the crack and tied everything into the WaterGuard system, which will allow the water to escape properly back into the ground.