Soil-matched methods for Lincoln and the surrounding Lancaster County.
A local specialist will inspect your foundation, walk you through the findings, and send a clear estimate, no cost, no pressure.
Lincoln office
1133 Libra Dr
Lincoln, NE 68512
Phone
(402) 566-5265Hours
Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Basement Waterproofing in Lincoln
Lincoln lies inside Lancaster County in Nebraska. Lincoln is home to about 290,531 people in roughly 118,332 households. 56 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied, and 69,754 of them are detached single family houses.
This is one of the towns with an Epp office in it, so the trucks leave from inside the city limits. Countywide, Lancaster County holds 81,449 detached single family homes and runs 59 percent owner occupied. That is about 86 percent of every housing unit in Lancaster County. Lancaster County holds about 323,673 people and 138,232 housing units in total. Half the housing predates 1980, and the 1970s were the busiest building years at 18,536 homes. A median home value of $230,400 and a median household income of $67,846 is what the American Community Survey records. The split is 66,654 owner occupied to 51,678 rented. Roughly 53 percent of the housing here, 62,707 homes, went up before 1980, when footing drains and grade separations were not what they are now.
Population and housing figures: American Community Survey, by way of the Signature Media market data set.
Completed basement waterproofing jobs in town, photographed on site by the crew that did the work.
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The USDA survey across Lancaster County reads clay and rates its shrink swell potential high. Soil that changes volume against a wall through the year is the driver behind most of what we are called out to look at.
What this looks likeWater that gets under a slab beside the 69,754 detached houses in Lincoln has 60 to 80 chances a year to freeze, and frost here reaches 36 to 42 inches.
What this looks likeOf the housing here, 62,707 homes predate 1980, with the biggest block of it going up in the 1970s. Original drainage is usually the story on those.
What this looks likeLincoln conditions
A city level sample here returns urban fill, not a natural series. Widen it to Lancaster County and the USDA survey reads Wymore at about 20 percent of the survey, with Aksarben and Pawnee alongside it. The texture split is 82 percent clay and 9 percent silt. Linear extensibility, the measure of how much a soil swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries, is weighted at 6.73 percent here, which USDA reads as high shrink swell potential.
A frost line of 36 to 42 inches and 60 to 80 freeze thaw cycles a year are the backdrop to every foundation in this area. With 35 to 40 inches a year of rain and snow, the ground beside a footing is wet in spring and dry by August.
Most of what we walk into here was built in the 1970s, 18,536 homes, around a median build year of 1980. Pre 1980 construction accounts for 62,707 homes here, and that is the group where original drainage is usually the story. 29 percent of the housing here, 34,043 units, sits in buildings of five or more, so a fair share of local work is on shared structures rather than single family homes. 64 percent of owner occupied homes here carry a mortgage, which is usually why a lender or an appraiser is the first to ask about a crack.
Soil survey: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access (SSURGO), sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov.
"We don't touch the mold. We stop the water. If the water source is still there after the remediation crew leaves, the mold is back inside a year, and the homeowner has paid twice. Sequence it right and it only gets done once."
Real projects completed by our Lincoln crew in Lancaster County County.
What we install
We diagnose the failure mode on-site, then match the method to Lincoln's marshall-sharpsburg silt loam (deep loess) and the structural condition we find. Free Customized Repair Estimate within one business day, no commission-paid sales pressure.
A straightforward path from initial inspection to completed repairs.
A local specialist drives to your Lincoln home, walks the structure, and explains the failure mode.
Soil-matched method, scope, pricing, and warranty terms, in writing, within one business day. See full warranty terms at /epp-foundation-repair-warranties/.
Epp crew installs in 1 to 3 days on-site. Yard left cleaner than we found it.
Every home is different. What a repair costs depends on the cause, the scope, and access. A free on-site inspection produces a Customized Repair Estimate that reflects your home, not a typical range.
Basement Waterproofing pricing in Lincoln varies with depth, load, access, and soil. Typical residential jobs estimate during the free on-site inspection. The Customized Repair Estimate is fixed-price, not a range. Most installations carry a written, transferable Epp warranty; full terms and conditions are at /epp-foundation-repair-warranties/.
If your Lincoln home has purely cosmetic cracks with no structural movement, no door or window racking, and no floor slope, we will tell you on inspection and recommend you wait or address the underlying cause first. If we cannot fix it right, we will not sell you a fix.
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Where we work
Bethany, College View, Haymarket, Highlands and University Place all sit inside the Lincoln city limits, so a job in any of them is scheduled out of the Lincoln office the same way as one downtown.
The crew
The same office schedules the inspection, runs the install, and answers a warranty call later.
Google reviews
My home had some problems with water in our basement and Epp foundation repair was able to come and fix it. Sam and his team was very professional and got the work done fast. He was very kind and managed the work well. Now our basement is dry and we have no problems. If you are in the Lincoln area and have home repair needs I recommend Epp foundation repair.
I wanted to take a moment to let you folks at Epp know how please I was with the install. The guys where very polite and helpful. On Monday at 8:00 A.M. Sam greeted me at the door to let my know the work was about to start and when I asked the guys about any concern I had they had the answer. When Sam asked my input on the window wells on the west side of the house I was impressed, Sam even took the time to show me how the placement would look so I could make the final call. Before I knew it the week and the work was done, the boys did a great job of cleaning up and was nice enough to leave me a little pile of dirt for some fill in around the yard and some for the garden. Epp you can be proud of your Lincoln team from the friendly sale man, to the lovely ladies in the office quick to answer my call, and your hard working men on the job. Thanks for a great job done.
This fall, due to recurring droughts and shrinkage, the front of my house decided that it might like to wander out into the street. Epp shored it up quickly, and the job foreman, Corey, was quick to explain everything they were doing in a way that I could easily follow. If your house looks like it wants to set out on its own, I'd recommend giving Epp a call.
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