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Updated October 20, 2026

The Lapham Home, a historic house in Dearborn, Michigan
The Lapham Home in Dearborn. Dearborn's older neighborhoods have some of Metro Detroit's oldest basements. Photo: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Dearborn's basements split by era and by which side of the city you are on. East and South Dearborn are 1920s–40s brick on Kibbie clay and industrial fill, and the city names both as the hardest hit in 2021. West Dearborn is 1940s–60s brick ranches. Pick your area below, or send the form from any page and the one local pro we refer will figure it out at the house.

East Dearborn

Schaefer–Warren area · 1920s–40s brick

Two problems overlap here: sewer backups through the floor drain during the regional storms, and mortar-joint seepage through old brick when the clay is saturated..

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South Dearborn / Salina

south end, near the river and the industrial district · oldest housing in the city

It is the other area the city names as hardest hit in 2021.

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Ford Homes Historic District and Springwells Park

south of Michigan Ave, west of the river · 1919–20s and 1930s plats

Owners here care about keeping the house's character, which shapes the work: interior drain tile and careful masonry repair rather than exterior excavation through historic landscaping..

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West Dearborn

Outer Drive, Cherry Hill, Golfview Oaks · 1940s–60s brick ranches

Leaks here are more often specific: one wall, one window well, one downspout, rather than the whole perimeter..

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Dearborn Hills

near the golf course · 1950s–60s homes

The common question from Dearborn Hills is not a leak at all but a block wall that has started to lean in at mid-height, with or without a horizontal crack..

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Every street in Dearborn

The referral covers all of Dearborn, ZIP codes 48120, 48124, 48126 and 48128, not only the neighborhoods above. If your street is not named, send the form anyway: the one independent contractor we refer works across the whole city. Area notes are general observations about housing age and mapped soils from the sources on the Dearborn facts page, not records of specific addresses.

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