Sherwood Park
Basement waterproofing and foundation repair in Sherwood Park.
Sherwood Park's housing stock is mostly newer than Edmonton's core, which changes the problem rather than removing it.
The mature sections, Broadmoor, Glen Allan, Mills Haven, Sherwood Heights, largely went up through the 1960s and 70s. Those foundations are now 50-plus years old with original drainage that has had five decades of clay soil movement working on it. The newer areas east and south are dealing with something else entirely: builder damp-proofing on lots that were graded once and have been settling ever since.
Acreage properties around the county add a third variable. Larger lots mean surface water has further to travel and often nowhere engineered to go, and many rely on sump systems with discharge lines that were never routed far enough from the house.
What we see most in Strathcona County
- Fifty-year-old drainage in the mature sections. Broadmoor and Glen Allan era homes are at the point where original weeping tile has silted or collapsed.
- Settled grading on newer lots. Backfill compacts over the first decade. The slope that shed water at possession no longer does.
- Acreage surface water. Large lots without engineered drainage send runoff wherever the land takes it, often toward the house.
- Sump discharge running back to the foundation. A very common and very cheap fix. The pump works fine; the water just returns.
- Clay soil, same as Edmonton. The county sits on the same expansive clay, with the same swell-shrink and freeze-thaw behaviour.