Basement Waterproofing Hintonburg

Wet basements in Hintonburg? You’re not alone.

Hintonburg’s early-1900s workers’ cottages and brick semis have been beautifully renovated above grade, but their basements often lag a century behind. As the Wellington West area has gentrified, homeowners increasingly want dry, usable lower levels and that means upgrading the stone-and-brick foundations and long-failed original drainage these houses were built with.

Hintonburg slopes toward the Ottawa River and its older streets carry surface and groundwater downhill through compact urban lots. With foundations built of stone and early brick and minimal or non-existent original waterproofing, moisture migrates through the walls and pools where lot grading has settled over a hundred years. Tight infill lots also push water from neighbouring properties against shared foundation lines.

What we see most in Hintonburg

• Crumbling parging and damp stone foundations in pre-1925 homes
• Surface water running toward basements on tight, downhill infill lots
• No original perimeter drainage on renovated century properties

Close to Wellington West, Tunney’s Pasture, the Parkdale Market and the wider Hintonburg area, if your basement takes on water, we’ll find the source and stop it.

It’s not only waterproofing, we also handle foundation repair in Hintonburg: leaking cracks, bowing walls and settlement, common where Ottawa’s Leda clay shifts with the seasons.