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Flood Control? Sewer Backing Up? Broken Pipe? Excavation & Underground (Chicago + Suburbs)
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If water or sewage came up through your basement floor drain during these storms, here's what actually happened: the city's combined sewer filled past capacity and pushed back up your line. Rodding doesn't fix that — there's nothing clogged. The fix is mechanical: a flood control system or overhead sewer that physically stops the city's water from entering your house. That's underground work, and that's what we do.
We do excavation and underground pipe work with our own equipment — mini excavator, trencher, the works. No renting, no waiting on a machine, no marking up someone else's iron.
SEWER LINE REPAIR & REPLACEMENT — most houses around here from before the 1960s have clay tile sewer pipe, and clay fails three ways: roots get in at the joints, the joints shift and offset, or a section collapses outright. We camera the line first and show you the footage — you see the break, the roots, or the belly yourself before anyone talks about digging. If rodding will genuinely buy you a few years, we'll say so. If you're paying to rod the same roots every year, the math on a permanent repair starts making sense, and we'll show you that math too.
FLOOD CONTROL & OVERHEAD SEWER — check valve and flood control systems installed in the parkway or yard, the permanent answer to storm backups. After this week, you know exactly why these exist.
CATCH BASINS — that round lid in your backyard is a catch basin, and if it hasn't been cleaned in decades it's part of your problem. Cleaned, rebuilt when the walls are caving, or properly abandoned when code allows.
WATER SERVICE LINES — broken or leaking water services dug and replaced. If your house still has its original lead service line, ask us about replacement — it's a dig job, it's what we do, and it's not getting cheaper.
DRAINAGE — yard flooding fixed at the source: French drains, drain tile, downspout lines buried and run to daylight or dry wells, regrading low spots that pond against your foundation. Sump and ejector pits dug and set.
EXCAVATION — trenching for any utility, foundation and footing digs, slab tear-outs, stump and obstruction removal, spoil haul-away. If it needs a hole in the ground done right, call.
Every dig gets utility locates through JULIE before a bucket touches dirt — that's not optional and anyone who skips it is gambling with your gas line. And when the dig's done, we don't leave you a dirt scar: concrete, sod, whatever we opened gets restored.
Send the address and what you're seeing — standing water, backup, sinkhole over the sewer line, wet spot in the parkway that never dries. That last one, by the way, usually means your water service is leaking underground and you're paying for it on your bill.