Mounds View became a city in 1958, and it filled fast: ramblers and split-entries on the flat ground between Highway 10 and Interstate 35W through the 1960s, with a second wave of two-stories in the 1970s and 1980s as the last farm fields went. The city sits in Ramsey County, right across the county line from Blaine and Spring Lake Park, with Rice Creek running along its south edge on the way to the Mississippi. The ground is the same sand plain, and the basements are the same block-walled, floor-drained, retrofit-pitted rooms.
A Mounds View rambler from 1963 has a low-pitched roof that dams ice every snowy February, a supply line through the rim joist that freezes when the wind is from the northwest, and a basement that has been finished twice.
This site puts Mounds View homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the basement before the scope is written.
Meltwater from an ice dam that came down the inside of the north wall is ice dam and roof leak water damage. Groundwater through the block during a thaw is a basement flooding cleanup. Once the wet material is out, structural drying runs against daily readings until the block and the framing read dry.
The City of Mounds View issues building and zoning permits through its community development office, and a basement rebuild that touches wiring, plumbing, or framing goes there, not to Blaine, even when the contractor came from across the line. Property records, floodplain questions, and the recorder's office for the lot sit with Ramsey County in St. Paul rather than Anoka County.
Call (763) 297-2728 and tell us which walls are wet. An independent local water damage provider serving Mounds View picks it up from there.
Groundwater or storm runoff pumped out of a Blaine basement, then the carpet pad, paneling, and block walls metered to find what stayed wet.
Cleanup after the pump quit during a snowmelt or lost power in a thunderstorm, and drying of the floor and walls the pit overflow reached.
Standing water pulled off concrete, carpet, and tile on any level of the house, followed by the first moisture readings on the walls.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until the slab, studs, and drywall come back to dry numbers in a closed-up Minnesota house.
Cleanup after a supply line froze in a rim joist, garage wall, or cold corner during a deep freeze and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and exterior walls dried after an ice dam at the eave or a storm-torn roof let water into the house.
A tank that let go in the utility room, the water it spread across the basement floor, and the walls it reached pumped out and dried.
Contaminated water that came up a floor drain or basement fixture removed, the porous materials it touched taken out, and the slab cleaned and dried.