Basement Flooding & Restoration in New Westminster

Water comes down the outside stair and through a well before it is a lake. We pump, then look at the bottom of the plaster. Saturated plaster at the base comes off so the lath behind it can dry. Saving a historic finish that is already mush is not respect. It is a mold farm.

When that Sapperton drain is the inlet, the flood is dirty. Soft finishes in the basement go. The fir upstairs is a separate question and often still dry. We bag the basement materials before they travel up the stair on someone's boots.

River-side streets add seepage through old foundations the day after the hill has already flashed. A house can take surface water on Saturday and seepage on Sunday. We treat the porous debris from the first flood as already compromised, and we meter before we rebuild.

Uptown and river buildings store things in rooms that flood from a corridor drain. Contents are the loss. Concrete is the dry-down. We list what was on the floor because that is what the strata and the insurer will argue about.