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Final Grade Excavating · Ogden, UT

Water Remediation in Ogden

Wet basements almost always start outside. The ground slopes back toward the house, the downspouts let go right against the wall, or the window wells fill up every spring. We do the outside water work for homes and property owners across Ogden and Northern Utah: buried downspout lines, regrading, French drains and drain tile, window well repair and drains, core drilling, and sump pits dug and set. We find where the water is actually getting in first, and if a dig won't fix it we'll tell you straight.

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What's included

Water Remediation, done the right way.

  • Downspouts plumbed off the rain gutters into buried line and carried out to daylight, away from the house.
  • Regrading the dirt around the foundation so the ground falls away from the house instead of back toward it.
  • French drains, curtain drains, and footing drain tile: perforated pipe, clean rock, and filter fabric.
  • Catch basins and area drains for the low spot in the yard that stays wet.
  • Window well repair and window well drains, so the well has somewhere to send water.
  • Core drilling through a foundation wall or a footing so a drain line has a way through.
  • Sump pits dug and set where the water collects, with the discharge run well away from the house before it lets go.
  • Digging and setting the pit and the basin for a sewer ejection pump, with the pump itself coordinated with your plumber.
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Drain pipe run at the footing of a stepped foundation to carry water away from the house

Why basements get wet in Northern Utah

Out here the water shows up on a schedule. Snow sits all winter, then March through May it melts faster than the ground can take it and the water table comes up with it. A lot of this valley is Weber River sand and gravel that drains fast right up until it's saturated, and the low spots run to clay and silt that barely drain at all, so where your house sits changes how much water it has to deal with. Then there's backfill, which keeps settling against a foundation for the first few years and quietly tips the grade back toward the wall. Add a downspout with nothing under it but a splash block, and a window well with no drain or a drain that's silted shut, and the water ends up right where you don't want it. Those are the things we go looking for.

On the job

Water work we have done.

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Tell us what you're planning, a foundation dig, a drainage fix, a driveway, a rock wall, a shop pad, or a whole site to clear and grade, and we'll come out, walk it, and give you an honest price. No cost and no pressure. Call or text to set it up.

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Good to know

Water Remediation questions, answered.

My basement takes water every spring. Where do you start?
Outside, at the grade and the gutters, because that's where the cheap fixes are. We walk the lot and look at which way the dirt falls in the first ten feet off the house, where the downspouts let go, whether the window wells drain, and where the yard holds water. One inch of rain on a 1,500 square foot roof is roughly 900 gallons off that roof, and a downspout with nothing but a splash block under it drops hundreds of gallons in one spot against the wall. Plenty of wet basements get better with regrading and buried downspout lines before anybody digs a drain.
My window wells fill up with water. Can you fix that?
Usually. A well either never had a drain, or the drain has silted and packed shut, or the ground above it slopes right into it. We dig the well out, fix the drain and tie it where the water can actually get away, and regrade the dirt above it so less water runs in. We repair and drain the wells that are already there. We don't fabricate or supply new wells or covers. One thing worth knowing if you do put a cover on: over an egress window, code (IRC R310) says the cover has to open from the inside without tools or any special knowledge.
What's the difference between a sump pump and a sewer ejection pump?
A sump pump moves water. It sits in a pit at the low point, takes groundwater and whatever the drain lines bring it, and pushes it outside and away from the house. A sewer ejection pump moves waste. It sits in a sealed basin and lifts what a basement bathroom or laundry drains up to the sewer line, because those fixtures sit below it and gravity won't do the work. They aren't interchangeable, and running sewage through a sump pump gets you a clog and a mess. On the ejector side, our part is the digging: we dig and set the pit and the basin and coordinate the pump with your plumber, who makes the connections.
Why would you core drill my foundation?
Because sometimes the water needs a way out and the concrete is in the way. Core drilling puts a clean round hole through a foundation wall or a footing so a drain line can pass through it and carry water out to daylight or over to a sump. It beats breaking concrete out with a hammer, since the hole comes out the size the pipe needs instead of a broken out section somebody has to patch.
Do you do water damage cleanup or mold work?
No. In the trade, water remediation usually means water damage restoration: drying out a flooded basement, tearing out wet material, mold work. That isn't us. We're an excavation crew, so we move water away from the house from the outside, and we dig and set the pits and basins that go with it. Where the work crosses over to a plumber, a waterproofer, or a restoration company, we stop and point you to the trade that handles it.

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