Mission, BC
Basement Flooding Restoration in Mission, BC
Mission basements depend on which side of the escarpment you bought. Slope houses have a daylight basement that floods from the hill. Downtown and Hatzic have lower levels that take river and lake water.
One of those is a buried wall. The other is water that has been outside. The tear-out is not the same.
Basement jobs in Mission are run by the same Langley water damage restoration crew. The slab gets dried before anyone talks about putting the room back together.
Escarpment daylight basements
Open the uphill wall. Leave the window wall if it is dry. The floor slopes toward the view, so the puddle is not where the water entered.
Flats and Hatzic lower rooms
Water that crossed the ground is dirty. Carpet goes. A supply-line flood in the same room, caught fast, might save more board. We do not guess from the carpet colour.
Silverdale houses with a crawl under the 'basement'
Older rural houses have a partial lower room and a crawl. Water moves between them. Pumping only the room leaves the crawl as a reservoir.
How this shows up in Mission
View basement wet at the back wall
Hillside entry. Partial opening.
Hatzic room after the lake came up
Outside water. Finishes out. Not a pipe-leak dry-in-place.
What we do on a Mission basement flooding call
Split Mission in two
Slope or flats, before the saw.
Follow the puddle backward
On a slope the puddle is the exit.
Check the crawl beside rural rooms
Silverdale and Cedar Valley connect the two.
Questions from this area
Basement Flooding in Mission: common questions
Why is the carpet wet by the windows if the leak is in the hill?
The floor drains that way. The entry is the dark wall behind the couch.
Is downtown Mission a basement city?
Some older houses have lower rooms. Many losses there are still crawls and slabs on the flats.
Do you treat lake water as sewage?
We treat it as water that has been outside, which means porous finishes come out. It is not a clean supply line.
Other restoration work in Mission
Basement Flooding in other communities
The same service, written for the housing and the water in each place. Langley is the home base. Read the main basement flooding page, or the Mission restoration coverage page.
Request service in Mission
Basement Flooding assessment in Mission
Tell us what failed, which room is wet, and whether the water is still spreading. If it is in the house now, call.
604-332-0886