Your Wet Basement Repairs and Septic System Specialists

Underground Solutions has been solving North Bay and area water problems since 2008.

Our methods work and we are proud to provide many references to support our work. Our specialties include basement waterproofing, exterior and internal weeping tiles systems, weeping tiles flushing, sump pumps and backup systems. We also offer site grading, hydrostatic relief, camera inspections, septic systems design, repair, and installations. We also offer skid steer, dump truck, and excavator services. You have problems, we have solutions.

Wet Basement Repairs

Over the years, we have spent a lot of time trying to understand how water enters basements and how to prevent them from leaking again. We have tried various methods and with years of trials and tribulations, we have taken the best out of each method and combined them into one great method we call “Our Guaranteed Method”.

It is called the guaranteed method because if you carefully follow every step of the process you will never have a flooded basement again! Our method is the ultimate waterproofing for basements! This allows you to address all of your problems at once. While some contractors will solely promote repairs to be done from the inside, we strongly recommend the exterior basement waterproofing approach.

With the exterior method, because you are excavating the entire foundation wall you will be able to: repair foundation cracks, change the weeping tile, waterproof the foundation using tar, Blueskin membrane or Tremco waterproofing combined with added protection from Delta membrane. After you have completed the foundation waterproofing, and if necessary, imported new backfill, you can adjust the landscaping to ensure that water runs away.

This is also a great time to repair the foundation’s parging! With a new weeping tile in place, I can assure you that you will be getting a lot more water in your sump pump system so make sure your sump pump is operating properly and consider the installation of either a battery backup sump pump or a water backup sump pump in the event the main pump fails or the power goes out.

Please visit our “Wet Basement Repair” section for more details.

Septic Systems

This industry has long been an interest of mine. I like the science behind wastewater treatment and it also ties in nicely with my wet basement philosophies in the sense that you have to understand water and how it behaves in order to effectively get rid of it.

Over the years we have come to understand all the various types of septic systems in use, from the common trench bed systems and filter bed systems to the more advanced tertiary systems such as Ecoflo, Bionest, EnviroSeptic and Eljen and for the most sensitive areas, we’ll design Phosphorus removal septic systems.

Understanding all these systems will not only allow us to effectively service them but it also gives us more options when designing a system to best suit your environment.

We are experts in system design.

We offer septic system installation and repairs as well as septic system design and repair. If it’s a new septic tank that you need, we install both concrete septic tanks and plastic septic tanks. Although I recommend concrete tanks, sometimes you need a plastic tank. When that happens, we use the toughest tanks in the industry, Roth!

These bullet proof tanks are manufactured by Roth Global Plastics which in my opinion are the toughest tank you will find. If it’s a drain field (aka septic bed or leaching field) you need, we’ve got you covered.

Our installations are always installed according to the Ontario Building Code and often we surpass their requirements. We know what it takes for a system to last many years. This is because we have seen many systems fail over the years.

Many installations have not followed the installation guidelines, which has led to system failures or premature failure of expensive investments. Underground Solutions can help you with all your septic system problems!

For a free consultation, call us today