Water Damage Restoration in Crescent Ponds, MN

Crescent Ponds is a Blaine subdivision of split-level homes on quarter-acre lots, the four-bedroom, three-bath kind that runs about 2,750 square feet with a two-car garage and a lower level half below grade. The name is the geography: the plat wraps around a set of stormwater ponds, and the lower levels of the houses on the pond side sit closest to the water those ponds hold after a storm.

A split-level floods differently from a full-basement rambler. The lower level is only a few feet down, so the pit is shallow, the footing is shallow, and the water table in a wet April is right there. The family room carpet on the lower level is the first thing to go dark, and the wall between it and the garage is the wall that freezes.

This site puts Crescent Ponds homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider reads every wall on the lower level before a single decision is made.

Crescent Ponds water damage on the lower level of a split

Groundwater that came in along the pond-side wall during a thaw is a basement flooding cleanup, with every wall on the level metered, not only the wet one. A pit that overflowed when the pump lost power is a sump pump failure cleanup. Once the pad is out and the wet drywall is cut, structural drying runs until the slab and the studs read dry.

What the pond level tells you about the basement

The ponds in a plat like this are designed to fill in a heavy rain and drain over days, and while they are full the sand between them and the houses is full too. A lower level that stays damp along one wall every spring has been wet longer than one season, and a meter reading on that wall tells you whether it dries between springs or never does. A rebuild on the lower level needs a permit from Blaine's building inspection desk before the drywall closes.

Call (763) 297-2728 and describe what the lower level looks like. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Crescent Ponds.