What's included
- Emergency pump-out, any hour
- Safe handling of contaminated water
- Sump pump failure cleanup
- Sewer backup disinfection
- Drying of finished basements
- Carpet, underpad & flooring removal
- Foundation crack referrals
- Full basement rebuild
First: what kind of water is it?
Groundwater seeping through a foundation crack is a wet problem. Sewer backup is a health problem. The cleanup rules are completely different — porous materials touched by sewage have to go, while clean-water losses can often be dried in place. We identify the source in the first minutes on site, because everything after depends on it.
Finished basements need fast triage
A finished basement is drywall, insulation, underpad, and laminate — four materials that hold water against the structure. We cut drywall at a controlled height above the water line, pull soaked underpad while saving the carpet when it is salvageable, and get airflow behind the walls the same day. What can be saved is dried; what cannot is documented for the claim and removed.
Stop it happening again
Most GTA flooding is preventable: a backwater valve stops city sewage from reversing into the house, a battery backup keeps the sump running through the power failure that always accompanies the storm, and grading or crack injection stops chronic seepage. We point you to the right fix — and Toronto and several GTA municipalities offer subsidy programs that pay for part of it.
Rebuilt drier than it was
When we rebuild a flooded basement we use materials that survive the next event: closed-cell insulation instead of fibreglass at grade, mold-resistant drywall, luxury vinyl plank instead of laminate. The basement goes back better suited to being a basement.
Before & after
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