Your Wet Basement Repairs and Septic System Specialists

Underground Solutions has been solving water problems in North Bay and the surrounding areas 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 provide dump truck, excavator, and skid steer services. We can solve your problems.

Wet Basement Repairs

We have dedicated a lot of time over the years to understanding how water enters a basement and most importantly how to stop a leaking basement from reoccurring. 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. Although some contractors will only recommend that repairs be made from the inside, we strongly advocate exterior basement waterproofing.

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. Once you have applied the correct foundation waterproofing and imported new backfill (if required) you can then adjust the entire landscaping so that water runs away from your house.

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.

For more information, please visit our “Wet Basement Repair” section.

Septic Systems

This industry has been a passion of mine for a long time. I enjoy the science behind wastewater treatment. It also fits in nicely with my wet-room philosophies in that you must understand water and its behavior to effectively get rid 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 allow us to service them efficiently and give us more options for designing a system that suits your environment.

In addition to system designing, we take pride in all your other septic system needs: septic tank pumping, septic tank cleaning, septic tank filter cleaning, sewage pump and effluent pump maintenance, distribution box adjustments (if equipped) as well as complete system inspections, if you are wondering how well the system is performing.

Our septic system designs and repairs we also offer septic system installations. 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 tanks are made by Roth Global Plastics and are my favorite. If it’s a drain field (aka septic bed or leaching field) you need, we’ve got you covered.

We follow the Ontario Building Code, and often exceed their requirements. We understand what it takes to install a system that will last many many years and the big reason for this is because we’ve inspected many systems over the years and we’ve seen a pattern of mistakes that installers or homeowners are making.

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!

Call us today for a free consultation.