Basement Waterproofing Orléans

Wet basements in Orléans? You’re not alone.

Orléans is Ottawa’s large east-end community, with homes ranging from 1980s Convent Glen and Fallingbrook builds to newer Avalon and Cardinal Creek developments and a strong Francophone population, so we serve clients in English and en français. This wide span of housing ages means everything from aging weeping tile to fresh settlement cracks, all on the same clay-rich east-end soil.

East-end Orléans sits on Champlain Sea Leda clay and slopes toward the Ottawa River, giving many neighbourhoods a high spring water table. The clay’s swell-and-shrink cycle through Ottawa’s freeze-thaw winters is a leading cause of foundation cracks and seepage and homes nearer the river and Petrie Island contend with elevated groundwater on top of that. (En français : l’imperméabilisation de sous-sol à Orléans est souvent liée à l’argile Leda et à la nappe phréatique élevée près de la rivière.)

What we see most in Orléans

• Settlement cracks in 1980s–90s Convent Glen and Fallingbrook foundations
• Aging clay weeping tile failing under decades-old homes
• High spring water table in neighbourhoods near the Ottawa River

Close to Place d’Orléans, Petrie Island, the Ottawa River and the wider Orléans 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 Orléans: leaking cracks, bowing walls and settlement, common where Ottawa’s Leda clay shifts with the seasons.