Warranties that cover the work everyone else won't
Four written terms covering both trades, registered to the address instead of the owner, and transferable the way homeowners assume transferable means. This page says exactly what each one covers, and what it doesn't.
- Interior waterproofing: lifetime, fully transferable
- Piers and stabilization: 25-year transferable
- Drainage warrantied for 5-year: the one nobody else offers
Registered to the house, not to you
The four terms, in one table
Basement waterproofing and foundation repair, equally covered. Each term is stated on its service page, in your written scope, and here.
| Work | Warranty | Covers | Doesn't cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interior waterproofing system (drain tile, sump, discharge) | lifetime, fully transferable | Water crossing the floor in a waterproofed area: we return and fix it at no charge | Water entering above the system, like window wells or plumbing leaks |
| Foundation piers, underpinning, wall stabilization | 25-year transferable | The stabilized wall or pier-supported section holding the documented elevations | New movement in untreated sections of the foundation |
| Urethane crack injection | 10-year | The injected crack leaking again: re-injected at no charge | New cracks elsewhere in the wall |
| French drains and yard drainage | 5-year | The drain doing its documented job: moving water to its discharge | Regrading done later by others, altered discharge points |
"Transferable" means transferable
No transfer fee. No re-inspection requirement. No thirty-day registration deadline the next owner never hears about. The warranty is registered to the address, so when the house sells, the coverage is simply still there, and the buyer's inspector can call us to verify it before closing.
We say this plainly because the industry standard is the opposite: a "lifetime transferable" headline attached to a clause that quietly voids coverage at the sale. A warranty that dies with the seller isn't a warranty, it's marketing with an expiration date.
The warranty conversation happens before the work, not after the problem.
How to read anyone's warranty, including ours
Comparing three quotes? Read the warranty pages against these five clauses before you compare the prices. This is where the real differences hide.
1. The transfer terms
Fee? Deadline? Re-inspection? Any of the three means the "lifetime" promise probably ends at your closing table.
2. Annual inspection requirements
Some warranties void themselves if you skip a paid yearly checkup. That's a subscription wearing a warranty costume.
3. System vs. seepage
Covering "the system functioning" is not covering your floor staying dry. Ours covers the outcome: water in a waterproofed area brings us back, free.
4. Water from above
No interior system controls a burst pipe or an open window well. Honest warranties say so up front; ours does, in the table above.
5. Who honors it later
Ask what happens if the company is sold. A warranty is only as durable as the obligation to honor it, so get the answer in writing.
Why we can warranty drainage
Nobody else covers yard drainage because they only sell interior systems. We fix the upstream cause too, so we can stand behind the whole path.
Get the work and the paper that stands behind it
Free inspection within 48 hours, published prices, and the warranty terms above written into every scope.
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(630) 335-1128