About Basement Waterproofing Cortland OH

Basement Waterproofing Cortland OH is a local-owned, local-run waterproofing outfit based in Cortland and working Trumbull County only. Matthew Stepanovich answers the phone, walks every basement himself on the first visit, and signs every warranty. No call center, no commissioned salesman in your kitchen, no sub-crews from out of state. Just a straight read on your basement and a plain-English quote.

Matthew learned the trade under his uncle on the Warren and Niles side of the county starting in his late teens, running trench and setting sump pits on 1920s mill-era foundations before he had his own truck. He spent the next couple of decades on the crew side for bigger regional outfits, watching the same mistakes get made over and over on Cortland basements, cove joints sealed with paint, sumps dropped into pits that were too shallow, drain tile laid without a sock. He started Basement Waterproofing Cortland OH because he was tired of the upsell scripts and wanted to answer his own phone.

Day to day, we run 2 or 3 jobs a week across Cortland, Warren, Niles, and the Mosquito Lake side. Matthew lives on the Everett Hull Road corridor so he knows which streets flood at the curb after a heavy spring rain and which 1960s block foundations off Mahoning Avenue are sitting on wet clay. Every quote is written before concrete gets cut, every install gets a garden-hose flood test before the crew packs out, and every customer gets photos of the drain tile, sump pit, and discharge line before the slab goes back down.