Basement Waterproofing Service Areas Near Royal Oak, MI
Requests are accepted from Royal Oak, MI and five neighboring cities in Oakland County. Wherever the house sits, the request reaches one independent local contractor, who makes contact and prepares any estimate; nobody from this site works on a basement anywhere.
Our Coverage Area
Listed here are the places requests come from; nobody from this site works in any of them. Royal Oak, a city of about 57,600 along Woodward Avenue in southeast Oakland County, sits at the center. Building permits there go through the City's Building Department, 248-246-3210, 203 S. Troy Street. Report basement flooding to DPS at (248) 246-3300 or, once DPS has closed for the day, to Police non-emergency at (248) 246-3500. The City's 2018 Stormwater Task Force report describes a combined sewer system, and the City treats everything up to and including the sewer connection as the owner's part.
The five cities below are separate places, never pieces of Royal Oak, and each runs its own permit office and public works department. All six lie inside the George W. Kuhn drainage district, whose Oakland County basin is in Madison Heights, MI. Michigan's LARA licensing, its plumbing law, its signed-agreement rule and the Attorney General's complaint line, 517-335-7599 or 877-765-8388, apply in every one of them.
Quick Coverage Check
Put your city or ZIP code into the lookup below; it tells you whether a request from your street can go through.
Find Your Town
- Huntington Woods, MI. About 1.5 miles west-southwest, a city of 6,274 known as the "City of Homes." Its Historic District Commission reviews basement egress work in the Hill and Rackham historic districts. For permits, contact the City's building department; sewer questions go to Public Works, 248-547-1888.
- Madison Heights, MI. About 2 miles east and the largest of the five, with 28,297 people and newer homes (median year built 1961) whose basements can differ. The George W. Kuhn basin sits beneath I-75 at 12 Mile Road. Permits: Community and Economic Development, (248) 583-0831, 300 W. Thirteen Mile Rd. Sewers: DPS, (248) 589-2679.
- Ferndale, MI. About 2 miles south-southeast, with 19,212 people and the oldest housing of the five. The City says it shares a combined stormwater and sewer system with surrounding cities. Permits: Community and Economic Development, 248-336-4117 ext. 115, 300 E. Nine Mile Rd. Backups: DPW, 248-546-2519, or Police non-emergency, 248-541-3650, when DPW is unavailable.
- Berkley, MI. About 2 miles west-northwest, a city of 15,145 whose combined sewer, the City says, runs entirely by gravity, with no pumps or valves. Community Development, 248-658-3320, 3338 Coolidge Hwy, issues permits, and Public Works, 248-658-3490, takes backup reports.
- Clawson, MI. About 3 miles north, a city of 11,312 settled in 1829, which has posted a "Rainwater, Catch-Basin, Combined Sewer System Alert" for heavy rain. Permits go through Community & Economic Development, 248-435-4500, 425 N. Main St. Sewer calls go to DPW, (248) 288-3222, or after hours to the DPW emergency line, 248-524-3477.
Royal Oak's Building Department, DPS and sewer-connection rule cover Royal Oak addresses only. In the five cities above, permit and sewer questions go to the local offices listed.
Ask About Your Address
Other addresses around Royal Oak can still send a request, and the lookup above shows whether one can be passed along. Before any visit, note your questions about the contractor's LARA license, who handles any plumbing and which permits apply.
A contractor may pay this site a flat advertising fee. Sending a request is free and comes with no reward, and from then on you hear only from the contractor.