Footing Drain Repair in Columbia, TN

Excavating to the base of the foundation to replace a perimeter drain that has silted up or collapsed.

A footing drain is the perimeter pipe laid alongside the base of the foundation when the house was built, meant to relieve water pressure against the wall before it finds a way through. When one fails it is almost always because it silted up, was laid without fabric, or was crushed. None of those are visible from the surface, which is why the symptom is usually damp inside rather than anything you can see outside.

This is the most expensive work on this page and it should be the last option, not the first. Roof water carried properly away, a corrected grade and an exterior drain intercepting the water uphill will together solve a large share of the cases where a footing drain gets blamed. Anyone recommending excavation to footing depth before those cheaper measures have been tried is starting at the wrong end.

Typical cost: $4,000 - $12,000, because the cost is the excavation to footing depth rather than the pipe

When footing drain repair is the right call

• Water enters at the joint between the wall and the floor
• Damp appears on one wall consistently, usually the uphill side
• Roof water, grading and exterior drainage have already been addressed
• The house is old enough that the original perimeter drain has no filter fabric

Other services

• French Drain Installation
• Yard Drainage & Regrading
• Downspout & Gutter Drainage
• Catch Basins & Surface Drains
• Driveway Culverts & Ditch Work

Common questions