Areas We Serve

Converted warehouse cellars cut below the water table, wet in August as well as March.

Loft conversions in 1890s mercantile blocks, where the cellar floor was lowered and the wall was not.

Former industrial buildings beside the creek, on the lowest and wettest ground in the city.

A mix of 1900s townhouses and institutional buildings on the slope up toward the hospitals.

Brick colonials from the 1920s under 80-year-old maples, where roots are the reason we are usually called.

The city historic district: 1870s to 1900s Victorians on stone rubble, most of them divided into flats.

A steep north-side rise where every house takes runoff from the properties above it.

Northeast streets of 1910s to 1930s two-family homes on poured walls that crack in one predictable place.

The steepest residential ground in the city, where runoff reaches the uphill wall of every 1900s stone foundation.

The oldest and densest housing in Syracuse, on foundations never built to keep water out.

West side streets of 1900s two-family homes on the flat below Tipperary Hill, taking the hill runoff.

Post-war infill and older frame houses at the western city line, on mixed block and poured foundations.

South side streets of 1920s bungalows on ground that drains slowly in every direction.

Post-war ranches at the southern city line on block foundations, where the slab sits shallower than the water.

A pocket of 1920s and 1930s homes on the slope above the valley floor, with deep basements and clay.

Dense older housing on flat, slow-draining ground, much of it with basements that were never meant to be dry.

The village within the city: 1915 to 1935 bungalows on poured walls that crack in one predictable place.

The high ground of Eastwood, where basements stay drier and the problems are cracks rather than flooding.

Post-war ranches at the northeast edge on block foundations that take water through the units.

Large 1920s houses on the hill with 9 ft basements and finished lower levels that hide the evidence.

The lowest ground in Syracuse, where hydrostatic pressure is the default rather than a possibility.

A small pocket of 1930s and 1940s homes on the slope between Strathmore and the valley floor.

Low ground at the north end where whole streets go wet in the same week every spring.

North Salina Street and the blocks around it: 1890s row housing with shared walls and shared water.

A compact district of 1880s to 1910s houses between the Northside and downtown, on the oldest drainage in the city.

Dense Victorian housing on narrow lots, where the neighbour’s downspout is often the reason your basement is wet.

The steepest grade in the city, mixed rental stock, and a great deal of deferred maintenance.

The residential streets south of the campus, 1910s to 1930s homes on the tail of the hill.

Streets around Thornden Park where the park land above drains directly into the housing below it.

Post-war ranches on flat ground with shallow basements sitting right on top of the water table.

East side streets on ground that gave the city its name, where the water has always been close to the surface.

A planned 1920s neighborhood of larger homes on the rise east of Meadowbrook, with deep basements.

Mid-century homes on the eastern edge of the city, on rolling ground with pockets of poor drainage.