Protecting your most expensive possession with hand excavated french drains
Few things will degrade the value of your home like a bad air environment or structural damage. Many homeowners overlook this fact until it costs them big bucks. Many homeowners blow home drainage problems off to the back of the priority list because they just don’t get it.
The current home valuation and financing crisis in the United States has brought to the attention of many homeowners the fact that they have waited too long to deal with groundwater problems.
Groundwater problems are likely not to go away in the middle of the night. They get worse with every rain event.
The fact that rainwater, that turns into groundwater, can literally wash away the future profits from the sale of your home should be a motivating factor for the homeowner.
The time to act is before your foundation footings start sinking, and your homes stability is compromised, mold and foundation damage becomes evident and other factors that come with home drainage problems are knowable by buyers and lenders..
The old saying that “a penny saved is a penny earned”, is certainly true, but when it comes to solving groundwater problems with hand excavated french drains, a more appropriate saying is, “a penny not spent is a penny burned”.