Window well flooding happens fast. A well without a cover fills with rain during a heavy storm, the drain at the bottom is clogged with leaves or was never connected, and the water pushes past the window frame and runs down the basement wall.
Plainfield has a lot of homes with egress windows in finished basements, especially in subdivisions built from the mid-1990s on. Those big wells collect a lot of water. Once the gravel base silts up, the well works like a bucket.
We extract the water, then check the wall below the window. Water running down behind drywall soaks the insulation and the bottom plate, even when the drywall face looks dry. We trace it with a thermal camera and a moisture meter, then cut and remove what is wet. Fiberglass batts that got soaked don't dry well and come out.
After drying, we look at the well itself. Common causes are a clogged drain, soil built up against the liner, or a missing cover. We show you what we found so you can decide on a cover or have the drain cleared.
If the water spread to carpet, we handle carpet and pad drying. If the wall stayed wet for more than a couple of days, we check for (/services/mold-removal) before anything gets closed up. Window well flooding often happens in the same storms that bring storm flooding cleanup calls.
