A Family Run Business
About Trotter Company
Trusted Since 1929
For nearly 100 years, Trotter Company has been trusted by more than 100,000 homeowners for drainage solutions, basement waterproofing, crawl space waterproofing & encapsulation, foundation repairs.
With decades of experience of hands-on experience working in Georgia’s unique red clay soil, Trotter Company brings unmatched local expertise to every project. We understand the soil conditions, the structural challenges, and the proper solutions required for long-term performance in this region.
Every project is carefully designed and supervised by our BHA-certified chief inspectors ensuring professional oversight, code compliance, and quality workmanship from start to finish.
When it comes to protecting your home, experience matters — and no one in Georgia has been doing it longer than Trotter Company.
Welcome to The Trotter Family!
A family tradition since 1929, we combine experience, innovation, quality craftsmanship, and exceptional people to protect your home with excellence — using the most advanced technology and proven solutions, all backed by lifetime warranties.
Over 100,000 homeowners have trusted Trotter. You can too.
Trust Trotter. Protecting What Matters Most
Experience
Only Trotter Company has nearly 100 years of experience in basement waterproofing and making foundation crack repairs in Georgia’s unique red clay. All of our jobs are designed and supervised by our BHA certified staff, almost all of whom have been with Trotter Company for more than 30 years.
Innovation
Only Trotter uses state-of-the-art technology to provide the driest system for your home. Our patented Dry-Tec system sets the new standard for basement waterproofing and foundation waterproofing, and our foundation piering system is like no other.
Quality
We make it a priority to use American-made products, since other countries often don’t have the strict production standards enforced in the U.S. Our products are made in the USA, so you can trust what we install in your home. When you hear, “We’re just like Trotter, only cheaper,” you’ll know better.
People
Experience matters – and at Trotter it shows. Across Sales, Operations, and Production, many of our team members have been here for over 20 years. Every project is lead by a BHA certified Chief Inspector, with 30+ years of hands on expertise. This isn’t ordinary workmanship. It’s proven, disciplined, execution, from the most experienced team in the industry.
A Family Tradition Since 1929
The Trotter family has been waterproofing basements in Atlanta since 1929.
My grandfather, Henry Trotter, moved to Atlanta in the late 1920s to become a general contractor. He told his father he had “walked behind a mule long enough” — and he was ready to build something of his own.
At that time, virtually every new home was equipped with a “modern” coal furnace. That meant there was an abundant supply of cinders — so plentiful that people actually paid to have them hauled away. Henry Trotter was a man of vision and one of the first contractors to use the new building blocks made from cinders.
The first cinder blocks were formed on-site using hand-operated molds. They were too fragile to transport by truck and would often disintegrate before curing. These early blocks were also highly porous, and basement walls built with them required thorough waterproofing. My grandfather quickly built a reputation for being one of the few contractors who truly understood how to waterproof these new foundations.
Innovation Through the Generations
In the 1950s, my father, Gordon Trotter, began installing some of the first below-floor drainage systems in Atlanta to address what was believed to be a high water table.
Basement floors were cut open, French drains were installed — one-foot sections of terra cotta or concrete pipe laid in washed gravel — and the concrete floors were re-poured. Since basements often leak where the wall and floor meet, it didn’t take long for my dad to realize that much of the water was actually seeping through the walls themselves.
He went on to brace cracked basement walls with block pilasters and stabilize foundations with spread footings — always focused on solving the root cause of the problem, not just managing the symptoms.
Carrying the Tradition Forward
On July 15, 1966 — the day I got my driver’s license — I became my dad’s service department. I spent countless hours in basements watching them leak.
It may sound unusual, but to this day there is nothing I would rather do than investigate a foundation problem during a heavy rainstorm. That’s when you really see what’s happening.
Today, my brother Clay and I lead a company full of dedicated men and women who feel the same way. We genuinely love what we do.
We fix what’s wrong — whether it’s water intrusion, foundation or slab settlement, or bowing walls — and we do it the right way.
Nearly 100 years later, the mission remains the same:
Solve the problem. Do it right. Make it last
Since 1929, More Than 100,000 Homeowners Have Trusted Trotter
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