Crawl space and basement waterproofing in Fern Creek, KY

Homes in Fern Creek

Newer subdivisions, walkout basements and the same old clay

Fern Creek stretches along Bardstown Road from the Gene Snyder toward Bullitt County, and most of it was built between the 1970s and the 2000s: two-story homes with walkout basements on the hillsides, ranches on crawl spaces on the flatter ground, all on clay that holds water. Fern Creek itself and Cedar Creek drain the area toward Floyds Fork and Pond Creek.

The ground under Louisville is dense clay on top of limestone. Clay drains slowly, so it stays saturated against a foundation long after the rain stops, and water moves through the limestone below along paths nobody can see from the yard. Newer does not mean dry. Walkout basements here leak on the buried side once the builder's grading settles, sumps installed in the 1990s are past their life, and vented crawl spaces have had twenty humid summers to grow mold. Interior drainage and modern sumps for the basements, encapsulation for the crawl spaces, and yard drainage to keep the water away in the first place.