Dunmore, PA Basement Waterproofing Specialist
Serving Dunmore and Lackawanna County homes over mine country. Free on-site water inspection inside 48 hours and a written price before any wall gets opened. Live phone 7 days.
Serving Dunmore, PA and the surrounding area.
What we do
Honest pricing, final quote before any work starts
Why Homeowners Call Us
Straight talk from a Dunmore foreman who has worked mine country basements for most of his career. Here is how we are different from the next guy on Google.
Call Monday, we are in your basement by Wednesday. Most 18512 and 18510 inspections get booked inside 48 hours so you are not sitting on a flooded floor waiting a week.
You see the full number in writing before a jackhammer touches your floor. Interior drain systems run 5,000 to 15,000 dollars in Dunmore and we quote the exact linear footage, not a rough band.
Abandoned coal mines under Bucktown, Hilltop and most of Dunmore drop the ground, crack walls, and shift water paths. Pyrite shale fill and a high water table make it worse. We have seen the pattern on hundreds of basements.
Fifty inches of snow a year and a freeze-thaw cycle that runs December into March. Our interior drains are bedded deep enough to stay below the frost line and we pitch sump discharge away from frozen ground.
A tube of hydraulic cement from the hardware store buys you one wet season. We trench the floor, install perforated drain tile in washed stone, tie it into a pit and a sump, and seal the wall with dimple board.
You call, a human in Lackawanna County picks up. No phone tree, no overseas call center, no 24-hour callback promise that turns into 4 days while your basement sits under 2 inches of water.
Our Story
Basement Waterproofing Dunmore PA is a small waterproofing shop run by Patrick Kelleher out of Dunmore. We work residential interior drain systems, foundation crack injections, sump pumps, egress windows and crawl space encapsulation across Lackawanna County. You get a straight answer on the phone, a free on-site inspection, and a written flat-rate price before any concrete gets saw-cut.
How it works
You call, we pick up. Expect 4 or 5 quick questions: where the water is coming in, how old the house is, which neighborhood, what you have tried. We give you a likely cause, a price band, and an inspection slot, usually inside 48 hours for Dunmore and the immediate 18512 and 18510.
A foreman walks your full perimeter, floor cracks, wall cracks, cove joint, and the grading outside. We check for pyrite shale fill signs, elevation differences and sump pit condition. Full inspection runs 45 to 90 minutes and you get a plain-English cause on the spot.
Before we leave, you have a scope on paper. Linear feet of interior drain, number of discharge points, sump pump model, wall vapor barrier, backup battery option. Quote is flat-rate, not time and materials. On most jobs we can start inside 2 weeks of a signed quote.
Crew saw-cuts the perimeter, trenches 8 to 10 inches deep, beds 3 inch perforated pipe in washed stone, patches concrete, pours sump pit and installs the pump. We water-test the full system before cleanup. You get a written transferable workmanship warranty and photos of what is behind the wall.
Service area
From the blog
Interior perimeter drain systems in Dunmore run 5,000 to 15,000 dollars. Exterior excavation is 15,000 to 30,000. Crack injection 400 to 1,500 per crack. Here is what drives those numbers in Lackawanna County mine country.
If your Dunmore basement shows any of these 9 warning signs in October or November, you are heading for a wet February. Here is what to look for and what to do before the ground freezes 36 inches down.
Three forces stack up in Lackawanna County to make basement water inevitable: abandoned anthracite mine subsidence, pyrite shale fill backfill from the 1950s, and 50 inches of annual snow melting against frozen ground. Here is how they interact.
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