Masonry waterproofing in Old Forge, PA
Lackawanna County · ZIP 18518 · Published pricing · Call (570) 909-2820
Old Forge is best known for its pizza, and the restaurants on Main Street are a good place to start explaining why the borough is on our list. Those buildings are older commercial masonry with basements that get used every day for storage and prep, and a wet stone wall in a working basement is a health department conversation as well as a nuisance. Anthracite Masonry Waterproofing does a fair amount of commercial basement work on Main Street for exactly that reason.
The houses tell the same story as the rest of the lower valley. The borough was built out by 1930 on rubble foundations, and the streets down toward where St. John's Creek meets the Lackawanna River took real water in September 2011. Houses near the confluence have groundwater at the slab in wet years and need drain tile and a sump, priced on our table at $4,500 to $12,000. Houses up toward Austin Heights and Moosic Road are on drier ground and mostly need the interior repoint and coating package at $3,000 to $8,000.
The other Old Forge job is the front stoop. Plenty of houses here have a stone or brick stoop with a basement window well under it, and once the stoop cap cracks the well fills every storm. Rebuilding the well and resetting the stoop is $900 to $3,500 depending on depth and whether the sill needs replacing.
Working around a kitchen that cannot close
Old Forge restaurant basements are often below the water table in spring, and they cannot be shut down for a week. We sequence those jobs in sections, one wall at a time overnight or on closed days, so the kitchen never loses the space.
Old Forge streets on the schedule
Regular stops include Main Street restaurant row, Moosic Road, the Austin Heights side, the St. John's Creek streets, Milwaukee Avenue, the Duryea line, Connell Street. If your wall is near those, a crew has probably already worked your street, and the price is the same table as everywhere else: the cost guide.
Price an Old Forge basement or stoop
Address in Old Forge first, then what you see. The range comes off the published table and we set a time for the hose test.
Old Forge questions, answered
- Can you waterproof a restaurant basement without closing the restaurant?
- Yes. We work one wall at a time on closed days or overnight, keep dust contained, and leave the space usable between sessions. Main Street jobs are scheduled around your hours.
- My window well under the front stoop fills every storm. What is the fix?
- Rebuild the well with a drain tied to daylight or the sump, and reset or re-cap the stoop so water sheds away from it. $900 to $3,500 per opening on our table.
- What does stone foundation waterproofing cost in Old Forge?
- $3,000 to $8,000 for the interior repoint, parge and coating package. Houses near the creek confluence usually add drain tile at $4,500 to $12,000.
- Do you cover Duryea and Moosic from Old Forge?
- Yes. Old Forge, Duryea and Moosic are one loop for us, and the housing stock and the water problems are close cousins.
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