Foundation Repair in West Allis, WI

West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, just south of Wauwatosa, and it shares a lot of the same housing history. Much of West Allis was built out in the early 1900s — the city grew up around the Allis-Chalmers manufacturing plant — so the homes here are older, with full basements of concrete block or early poured concrete and a lot of the original clay drain tile still in the ground. That aging drain tile is a big reason West Allis basements seep at the floor-wall joint long after the homes were built.

Like its neighbors, West Allis sits on the heavy glacial clay of southeastern Wisconsin, which holds water against basement walls and swells when wet. The city is its own city — not the west side of Milwaukee — and its older, close-together homes mean downspout and grading problems show up fast as wet basements after a storm. Spring snowmelt and summer thunderstorms saturate that clay quickly, and many West Allis homeowners first call us when a sump pump can't keep up or a wall crack starts leaking.

We handle the full range of foundation and basement work in West Allis: sump pump repair and replacement, interior drain tile to replace clogged clay tile, wall crack injection, settling repair, and structural bracing for bowing block walls. The homes are similar to Wauwatosa's, so the fixes that work here are the same ones we use every day just next door.