Basement Waterproofing in Agawam & Feeding Hills, MA

Agawam stretches along the west bank of the Connecticut River, with the Westfield River crossing its northern end and the village of Feeding Hills rising to the west. The housing is a mix of older farmhouses and village homes from its farming days, and a lot of postwar ranches, capes and colonials built as it became a suburb. Most of those mid-century homes stand on poured concrete or concrete block foundations — and a good share of them were built with little more than a thin tar coating on the outside wall, which gave up decades ago.

Why Agawam Basements Get Wet

• Riverfront water table. Streets near the Connecticut River and along River Road sit close to the river's level. In a wet spring, the water under those slabs rises to meet it.
• Failed original damp-proofing. The tar coating on postwar foundations was damp-proofing, not waterproofing — it was never meant to hold back pressurized water, and after 60+ years it has largely cracked away.
• Shrinkage cracks in poured walls. Agawam's ranch and cape foundations are full of the classic vertical hairline cracks that seep every spring — individually small, but enough to keep a basement damp and musty year after year.
• Feeding Hills runoff. On the slopes in Feeding Hills, heavy rain and meltwater run downhill; homes at the bottom of a grade collect more than their share against the uphill wall.

What We Install in Agawam Homes

Because so many Agawam foundations are poured concrete, a lot of calls here are solved with crack injection — sealing the two or three leaking cracks for a few hundred dollars each instead of selling a full system. When water comes in at the floor-wall joint all around the perimeter, or the water table itself is the problem near the river, the answer is an interior drainage system with a properly sized pump and battery backup. And for homeowners already digging for other work, exterior waterproofing replaces that failed tar coating with a real membrane.

Areas Served in Agawam

Agawam Center · Feeding Hills · River Road / riverfront · North Agawam · South Agawam · Suffield Street corridor

An inspection sorts out whether you need a $400 crack repair or a drainage system — call and we'll give you the answer, and the price, in writing.