Masonry waterproofing in Olyphant, PA
Lackawanna County · ZIP 18447 · Published pricing · Call (570) 909-2820
Olyphant is the center of the Mid Valley and almost every house in it was standing before the Depression. The borough grew around the Grassy Island and Eddy Creek collieries, and the patch housing that came with them was built on whatever stone came out of the ground, laid dry or in thin lime mortar, with the basement left as raw rubble. That is the stock Anthracite Masonry Waterproofing spends most of its Olyphant time in, and it is why the borough ranks third on our list.
The river is the other half of the story. Olyphant took water from the Lackawanna during Tropical Storm Lee in September 2011, and the streets nearest the river still have basements that fill from below whenever the river runs high. A crystalline coating cannot hold back a water table, so those houses get interior drain tile, a sump with a battery backup, and a discharge line run to daylight well away from the wall. We put the price on the table before anyone commits: $4,500 to $12,000 depending on the perimeter.
Away from the river, up toward Queen City and the hillside streets, the problems are the usual valley ones: washed-out lime joints, a downspout dumping against a stone wall, a window well with no drain. Those are the $3,000 to $8,000 interior jobs and sometimes just a spout extension and a repoint on one wall.
Why old parge in Olyphant hides the leak
Many Olyphant patch houses had their rubble walls skimmed with a hard cement parge sometime in the 1960s or 1970s. That parge is now hollow, and water runs behind it and shows up feet from where it entered. The first step on those walls is taking the old parge off so the actual joints can be seen and repointed.
Olyphant streets on the route
Regular stops include Lackawanna Avenue, the Queen City side, Delaware Street, the Grassy Island Creek streets, Willow Avenue, the Blakely line along Main Street, Mid Valley school area. 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.
Get an Olyphant basement priced
Address in Olyphant first, then what you see. The range comes off the published table and we set a time for the hose test.
What Olyphant homeowners ask
- My basement fills when the Lackawanna runs high. What actually fixes that?
- Interior drain tile and a sump with a battery backup. The water is arriving under the slab, not through the wall, so a wall coating will not stop it. Expect $4,500 to $12,000 depending on the perimeter, with the price from our published table.
- Should I remove the old cement parging on my stone wall?
- If it sounds hollow when tapped, yes. Water travels behind loose parge and hides the failed joints. We take it down, repoint the stone in lime mortar, and re-parge with a bonded coat.
- How much does interior stone foundation work cost in Olyphant?
- $3,000 to $8,000 for rake, repoint, parge and a crystalline coating on a typical patch house. That is the most common Olyphant job.
- Do you work in Blakely and Peckville too?
- Yes. Olyphant, Blakely, Peckville and Jessup are one route for us, and the housing and the problems are the same across the Mid Valley.
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