Before & After Photos

As you can see by the look of it, this Greenwood, South Carolina basement was having more than its fair share of water issues. Water would often pour through the walls and wash over the floors leaving it stained and messy. When our Design Specialist saw this he was not surprised. Many basements have water issues. The difference that separates this one from those is what you choose to do about those problems.

Take a look at our “after” photo. The idea behind the sump and the CleanSpace is to collect the water from the walls and distribute it away from the home. To do this, our Design Specialist installed our signature CleanSpace liner. It’s a 20mils thick liner that is nearly impossible to rip or tear. The pump is our patented SuperSump placed in the lowest point of the basement to collect the water as it flows to the low point. The CleanSpace actually helps direct that water to the pump, keeping out of the main floor of the basement.

To fix the water intrusion of the basement, our team added WaterGuard. WaterGuard is like a French drain although it is installed inside of the home. This interior form of waterproofing is more likely to resist clogging with silt or plant roots. WaterGuard catches wall and floor seepages before it reaches the floor in its drainage pipe where it is then sent to the sump pump. This basement also had a SuperSump pump installed so that the water from the WaterGuard could be drained from the basement.

In the before pictures you see the basement without any waterproofing products in the floor. But in the after picture you can see where the WaterGuard has been added to the basement and covered with cement for a hidden waterproofing method. You can see the flood check port in the lot right hand of the photo.

Large, full basements aren’t exceptions to the moisture rule. Even homes that have, in the beginning, shown no signs of water intrusion often end up a casualty in the war on water. It’s unfortunate, but not uncommon. That is the problem this Greenwood, South Carolina homeowner had when they decided to give All-Dry of the Carolinas a call.

If we take a look at the ‘after’ photo, we see evidence that water has come and gone. There’s discoloration on the floor, which, by itself is not only unsightly, but it’s also evidence of a much larger problem. What would happen to the floors during a flood?

In the ‘before’ photo, we have completely solved this issue. Notice the dark outline against the floor. That’s where we have installed our patented WaterGuard system and covered it with cement. In the photo, it has yet to dry, but when it does not even the homeowner will be able to tell the difference.

Our WaterGuard sits against the wall and captures the water as it passes through the walls down to the floor. It’s inserted and then hidden from view. It doesn’t sit in the dirt and so, there is no way it could clog or be filled with debris. There are small notches (or teeth) in the WaterGuard that allow nothing but water to pass into it. Once it captures this water, the water is then directed to one of our patented sump pumps and swiftly sent away from the home.

The space has hardly been changed at all.

Crawlspaces, more often than not, have doors. Some don’t necessarily have the best doors in the world, but they do have them. It’s common. However, this Ridgeway, South Carolina home did not have a door.

It had exactly what you see here in the ‘before’ photo. The actual entrance was completely without a door. This gaping hole was an invitation to all critters and creepy crawlies to come on inside. On the other hand, it did have a wooden hatch. But, this hatch, just like wooden doors, was no good for a crawlspace. Because crawlspace entrances are low to the ground, they are hard to maintain. The ground is damp and that wood is liable to warp and rot straight away.

In the ‘after’ photo we’ve taken care of this problem. We’ve given this home one of our patented EverLast crawlspace doors. This door is made completely of inorganic material that is waterproof and resistant to mold growth. The EverLast door also has a heavy weatherseal strip to seal off outside air.

It still has the hatch, but now it is actually protected from the outside and sealed so that it doesn’t allow the air in to raise your heating and cooling bill.

Water intrusion is a bad thing no matter where it happens in a home. This home happened to have this problem in their finished basement. If left unchecked, water intrusion can do some major damage including rot and mold. This can be especially bad when these things actually happen in the home, like this customer's case. Fortunately for them, they had not let it get to the point of rot or mold. They were more preemptive in this case and called us before too much damage was done.

The "before" photo shows the area just before we installed our products. We have to cut out and remove the drywall partially up the wall in order to install our CleanSpace Wall, which helps to direct and drain water to our Waterguard drain that we also installed.

The "after" picture shows what the (almost) finished product looks like. You can see the area behind the insulation that has been covered with the CleanSpace liner that was just mentioned. The dark area of concrete is where the Waterguard was installed. It drains down to the sump pump where any collected water is then pumped out of the basement.