Back Fill Restoration

To put it bluntly, basements are built in a hole.  After the basement walls are built builders push soil in to fill the open space left between the basement walls and the banks of the excavation.  This area that is filled in is called the “backfill”.  As time passes this soil settles and traps water against your basement walls.  First it leads to wet basements, gradually the basement walls develop long horizontal cracks, and if ignored, eventually the walls collapse.  Backfill settlement is the number one cause of wet basements as well as caved in basement walls.   Warning: basement walls will collapse!