Melbourne remedial waterproofing & leak injection
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Leaking basement, carpark or lift pit?

We stop water at the crack or construction joint by resin injection — working from inside, with no excavation and no damage to finished works. You get a written diagnosis, a method statement and a fixed price you can forward the same day.

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Three details and we’ll call you. The site visit is free, and you get the written diagnosis whether you use us or not.

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20+ years on site Below-ground waterproofing specialist $20M public liability Ex-Tier 1 builder defects & warranty
Water tracking down every panel joint along a basement carpark wall, with standing water across the floor
Melbourne basement carpark — active water ingress at the panel joints, water pooling across the bays. This is the point where it goes on the defect list.

What we actually do

Negative-side injection. The resin goes into the crack, reacts with the water and seals the path it is travelling through — from the dry side, where the leak shows.

Diagnose it

We find where the water is really entering, which is rarely where it appears. You get it in writing.

Inject it

Packers into the crack or joint, resin under pressure, sealed through the full wall thickness.

Document it

Method statement, fixed price scope and a close-out pack a superintendent will sign off.

Injection packers installed in a row along the wall-to-floor construction joint of a basement carpark
Packers set along the wall-to-slab joint, ready for injection. No excavation, no slab lifting, no damage to what's already built.
Water staining down the walls of a lift pit with water sitting on the pit floor
Lift pit taking water. Awkward, wet, and the sort of place that stalls a handover — we work in them regularly.

Hawthorn — where stopping the water was never an option

A heritage brick building with a live rail corridor on both sides. Groundwater was coming straight through the brickwork at the lower level — and with trains either side there is no external access, so tanking it from outside was never available. The honest answer was that this water could not be stopped. It had to be controlled.

Bare brick lower-level walls with groundwater pooling across the concrete slab before waterproofing
Before. Groundwater through the brickwork, pooling across the slab and tracking along the base of both walls.
Newton cavity drain membrane installed floor to ceiling across the walls, slab dry
After. Cavity drain membrane, floor to ceiling. Water is captured behind it and taken to a managed discharge point rather than fought.

We specified a Newton cavity drain system — Type C drained protection — to roughly 300 m² of wall, full height. The cracks in the ceiling were a separate problem, sealed with acrylic resin using our specialised leak-injection work. The program was the hard part: the whole system had to be in before the roof went on, and we overcame supply-chain challenges to hold our completion date. It has performed as designed since completion, and it carries a warranty.

Book a free site assessment

Tell us what’s leaking and we’ll come and look at it — at no charge. You get the written diagnosis and method statement whether you use us or not.

A suburb and a rough idea of the area is plenty. We'll ask the rest on the phone.

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What it costs

Costs vary with the length of the crack, the volume of water and how hard the area is to get to. Our minimum charge is $3,500. You get a fixed price in writing before anything starts — no variations once we’re on site.

Who you're dealing with

Keelson is run by Sean Meaney — 20+ years in construction, specialising in below-ground waterproofing and leak injection, with a Diploma of Building and Construction. Previously warranty and customer care manager at a Tier 1 residential builder, so the defect list and the handover deadline are familiar territory.

CoverageMelbourne metro, below-ground and hard-to-reach water ingress
AssetsBasement walls and slabs, carparks, lift pits, retaining walls, planter boxes, expansion joints
Insurance$20M public liability

Questions we get asked

Do you have to dig up outside?

No. Injection is done from the inside face, where the leak shows. Nothing above or outside gets disturbed — which is the point when the building is finished or close to it.

Will it hold, or is it a patch?

Resin injection seals the water path through the full thickness of the element, not just the surface. Done properly at the right crack it is a permanent repair, and we warrant our work.

Can you work while the site is live?

Yes. Occupied carparks, operating buildings and active sites are normal for us. We work around trading hours and traffic where we need to.

What do I get to close out the defect?

A written diagnosis of the cause, a method statement, a fixed price scope, and a close-out pack with photos and product data — the documentation a superintendent will actually accept.

Get it off the defect list.

Send us what's leaking and we'll come and look at it.

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