Our Story
About Basement Waterproofing Dunmore PA
Basement Waterproofing Dunmore PA is a small waterproofing shop run by Patrick Kelleher out of Dunmore. We work residential interior drain systems, foundation crack injections, sump pumps, egress windows and crawl space encapsulation across Lackawanna County. You get a straight answer on the phone, a free on-site inspection, and a written flat-rate price before any concrete gets saw-cut.
Patrick grew up in Lackawanna County and learned the trade on his uncle's masonry and foundation crew out of Scranton in his early 20s. After close to two decades of running basements for other outfits around NEPA, he got tired of watching rushed crews sell exterior digs where an interior drain was the right call, and the other way around. He opened his own shop so he could walk every job himself, quote it honest, and put his own name on the warranty. Most weeks he is working Bucktown, the Hilltop section, and the older stone-foundation houses down toward Dunmore Corners and the Smith Park area.
The way we operate is simple. Calls get answered live, not routed to a call center. The inspection is free and the quote goes in writing before we leave the house. We run our own crews, not subcontractors, and we water-test every drain system before we patch the concrete. Lackawanna County sits on top of abandoned anthracite coal mines, so ground subsidence and shifted water paths are a weekly reality here. Fifty inches of winter snow, pyrite shale fills in a lot of the postwar builds, and a high water table in the Lackawanna River valley make it a hundred percent certain that a NEPA basement will see water eventually. We know those patterns and we quote the fix that actually solves it.
- Free on-site inspection and written flat-rate quote in your hand before we leave the house
- Owner walks every Dunmore, Scranton and Clarks Summit job personally, not a rotating salesman
- Interior perimeter drain, crack injection, sump pump, egress window and crawl space encapsulation under one shop
- Transferable workmanship warranty in writing on every system we install
- Local crew only, no subcontractors, same foreman from inspection through cleanup
Meet the owner
Patrick Kelleher
Owner, Basement Waterproofing Dunmore PA
Patrick grew up in Lackawanna County and started hauling 5-gallon buckets of washed stone on his uncle's foundation crew in his early 20s. He spent close to two decades running basements for other NEPA shops before opening his own in Dunmore. Lives over in the Hilltop section, drives the same Ford F-250 he has had for 13 years, coaches the Dunmore Little League in the spring. Plain talker, allergic to upselling. If your crack can be injected for 700 dollars, he will tell you that instead of selling you a 12,000 dollar perimeter drain.