Waterproofing Northeast
Hennepin County

Basement waterproofing across Hennepin County.

Minneapolis, Bloomington, Plymouth, Edina, Brooklyn Park, Richfield, St. Louis Park, Golden Valley. One crew, the same standards, the largest of the five Twin Cities counties.

The county

Most populous county in Minnesota. Most basements, too.

Key takeaway
Hennepin County sits over Mississippi River bluffs, glacial outwash plains, the Chain of Lakes, and several large former wetlands that were drained between 1880 and 1920. Almost every basement seepage pattern that exists in Minnesota shows up somewhere in Hennepin.

We cover the cities people actually call us from. Inner-ring Minneapolis neighborhoods are mostly pre-war housing stock with stone or block foundations, low-floor basements built into glacial till, and water table issues driven by the original wetland geometry under the city. The first-ring suburbs (Edina, Richfield, St. Louis Park, Golden Valley) are mostly mid-century rambler infill on the same geology with poured-wall foundations.

The outer-ring (Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Bloomington east side) is mostly 1970s-2000s subdivision construction on graded-and-filled sites, with their own characteristic problems: hydrostatic pressure from compacted backfill, perched water tables on engineered fill, and surface drainage that was designed before the trees grew in.

The geology is the same. The construction era changes. The water moves the way it always has.

That overlap is the reason we know what we are looking at when we walk into a basement here. After enough Hennepin County basements, the patterns become obvious: which neighborhoods sit over former wetlands, which streets sat downhill from a now-paved drainage swale, which foundations were built in a year that the city was still figuring out its storm sewer design.

Hennepin County jobs

Real basements from this county.

Filter by service, products used, or city. Pulled live from our jobsite photo logs across Hennepin County, no stock images.

Cities we serve

Hennepin cities with a dedicated page.

Each city below has its own page with the local soil, water, and basement-era history we work with.

Hennepin city not listed? Call us. We work most of the inner-ring and near-in suburbs even when the city does not have its own dedicated page yet.

Services

The work, county-wide.

Same crew, same warranty, same answer-the-phone service anywhere in Hennepin County.

Most common

Drain Tile Systems

Below-slab drainage that collects groundwater and directs it to a sump when the observed water path supports that scope.

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Active failure

Sump Pump Systems

Primary pump, basin and discharge matched to the property. Battery backup is an optional, separately quoted choice.

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Planning for 2027

Regrading & French Drains

Learn how grading and French drains manage surface water, and plan exterior work for 2027. Installation is anticipated in late April or early May, once ground conditions allow.

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B2B service

Commercial Buildings

Planned interior below-grade drainage and sump work for existing buildings, with property-specific access, scope and documentation.

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Not sure which repair fits?

Tell us where the water appears and when it happens. Choose a free homeowner project estimate or a $250 written transaction assessment.

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