Lesage Excavation Inc

I got about 5 quotes when it was time to install my French drain. Lesage had the most modern techniques and the best warranty. Still pretty expensive but worth the extra money for the 20year warranty compaired to the 10 year with some of the cheaper guys. Joe and Antoine were very professional, punctual and knowledgeable. It's comforting to know that when you are spending a lot of money on a big job that it is being properly . Merci Lesage Excavation
8 years ago (12-05-2017)

Bottom line - I feel lucky that I ended up with Lesage Excavations doing my French drain. And if you would like some details - please read on. My basement was wet for a while. When I decided to renovate it, and took the floors and walls off - this became obvious. I have some experience in construction, so it was clear to me, that my french drain is either missing or not working as it should. No surprise - my house is 1953. So I started calling contractors. The first one came in, made an estimation and presented me with a fork of $25,500 to $33,500, which was a shock, since I don't screw Bill Gates' daughter. Another guy gave me 15 K price with taxes on top, but I'd have to pay extra thousand for removing and taking away my concrete sidewalk that goes from the street to my side entrance. And extra thousand for taking out my cedar hedge and extra for removing my emergency stairs and extra for the whole lot of other things. Yet another guy told me that I won't get it any cheaper then 130$ per foot, and I had 150 feet to dig. Total of 7 contractors visited my place. Before Lesage Excavation guy came to me, I was already fixing things towards doing the job myself. I found three people - to work an excavator, a loader, and one general helper. I found where to rent all machines, where to buy gravel, membranes... It took me quite a while to come up with a complete plan, and a price list for that plan ended up being just shy of 12000$. And I 'd have to be there and supervise. So I'd have to leave my work. But then an estimation from Lesage came in. They offered to do a job for the price I could afford and I decided to go with them. They completed the job in under 5 working days, and that was with two major, unforeseen complications. First - being a hidden staircase that led to a door that was no longer there. Apparently, one of the previous house owners wanted to make an auxiliary entrance to the house from the basement. To that end there was a doorway punched through the bottom of the basement of my side entrance, and there was a concrete staircase leading to that door. My guess is that city didn't approve of this and he had to seal the doorway with concrete and he left that staircase there, burried underground, not visible from the surface. Lesage removed that for me for much less then it would cost me to remove it myself. Considering - this was a piece of concrete of around 2 tons weight. The second surprise was under my backyard entry - good builders just piled a bunch of rocks and bricks and made 2 feet of foundation on top of that pile. And built this entrance there. No surprise the water was leaking from the base of that entrance all the time. Lesage team has made a new foundation of 15 feet long around this entrance. And again, they charged bare minimum for it and did it in one day! This was an amazing job. We have a home daycare in our house and all those heaps of excavated earth absolutely did not help us. An access to the house was very limited. Here, I would remember yet another contractor, who offered a price of 20 K, and said that he will complete the job in 2 weeks. 2 weeks of that? Lesage Excavations team was a bunch of hard-hitting professionals who did an outstanding job in shortest possible period of time, in a very tight setting. These guys never stopped. They did the job for way less then it would cost me to do it myself. And they saved me a whole world of frustration. And they left a clean place behind. They don't put blueskin or that PVC membrane on top of their two layers of elastomer. But you should see those two layers - that really is enough! And they put foam boards on top of that coating. I've spent around 3 hours reparing small gapes between foundation and footing, once they pressure washed it - and this is just what I wanted! I'd rather do it myself then pay an extra $1000-1500 for this. It doesn't take a degree in civil engineering!
8 years ago (16-09-2016)

Do NOT hire this company. Very unprofessional. They will leave your house a mess!!! My driveway is all scratched up!!! Never cleaned up anything!!! The guy was a total douche bag.
8 years ago (16-09-2016)

Nous avons fait affaire avec cette compagnie pour changer notre drain français. Les membres de l'équipe qui ont effectué les travaux ont répondu à tous nos questions, étaient très accommodants et ont quitté en laissant le terrain très propre. Prix compétitifs, excellents personnels, excellente garantie. Il n'y a eu aucune surcharge et nous sommes plus que satisfait. Merci beaucoup! Je recommande.
7 years ago (06-02-2018)

Extrêmement satisfait : nous sommes une copropriété sur le plateau Mont-Royal qui était confronté à un difficile problème d'humidité dans notre demi sous-sol Lesage Excavation nous à présenté une solution viable, à un tarif concurrentiel et à réalisé les travaux avec un grand professionnalisme en respect des délais annoncés. Le représentant s'est montré disponible lorsque nous avions des questions, les équipes techniques sont sérieuses. Nous recommandons.
7 years ago (20-10-2017)