Foundation & Waterproofing

Foundation Repair, Waterproofing & Drainage Across Western Washington.

Chimneyz repairs and rebuilds the part of your home that everything else stands on. Foundations, basements, crawl spaces and the drainage that protects them, handled by one licensed Washington team that treats water as the structural problem it is.

Why It Matters

Almost Every Foundation Problem Starts as a Water Problem.

Western Washington soil swells when it is saturated and pushes on whatever is holding it back. That pressure is what opens foundation cracks, bows basement walls, floods crawl spaces and rots the framing above them. Repairing the concrete while the water keeps arriving is how homeowners end up paying for the same job twice. We assess the roof drainage, the grade, the footing drain and the structure as one system, because on your house they are one system.

Foundation Repair.

Cracks, settlement and bowing walls are symptoms. We measure what is actually moving, repair the structure properly, and correct the water that caused it so the repair holds.

Cracked concrete foundation wall on a Pacific Northwest home

Foundation Rebuilding.

When the concrete itself has failed, reinforcement is cosmetic. We replace failed sections of wall and footing with the house supported and, in most cases, still occupied.

New reinforced concrete foundation wall formed beneath an older house

New Foundation Construction.

Footings and foundations for additions, ADUs, garages and shops, sized to your soil and detailed with the drainage that becomes impossible to add once the building is up.

Formwork and steel reinforcement for a new residential foundation before the pour

Basement Waterproofing.

A dry basement is a drainage problem solved, not a coating applied. We trace where the water enters and give it a better route than your floor.

Basement wall with a damp line and efflorescence beside a new perimeter drain

Crawl Space Repair.

Sagging floors, failed posts and rotted framing are structural damage, not humidity. We rebuild the load path and replace what the damp has already destroyed.

Crawl space with fallen insulation, joists and a support post on a concrete pier

Crawl Space Waterproofing.

Water reaches a crawl space four ways. We establish which ones apply to your house and stop those, rather than selling one system to every home.

Standing water over saturated soil in a crawl space beside a damp stem wall

Crawl Space Encapsulation.

A sealed, conditioned crawl space brought inside the building envelope. It is the permanent answer, and it only works once the space is genuinely dry.

Encapsulated crawl space with a sealed white liner over the ground and stem walls

French Drain Installation.

The cheapest foundation repair is the one you never need. We intercept water upslope and carry it clear of the house, built so it does not silt shut in four winters.

Open French drain trench with perforated pipe in washed gravel and filter fabric

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