Homeowners are learning to speak the home drainage language, and as a result, these educated home drainage homeowners are… busting out the truth from sellers trying to lie to them about their history with drainage problems at the home. This can be rewarding, funny, and satisfying for home buyers, instead of just the other way around.
Very little quality information exists about professional home drainage residential installations.
This web site is an effort to bridge the home drainage information to homeowner, information gap.
Lots of internet drainage pundits and tv personalities are published, talking and writing about home drainage, but like I said, from an every day practical sense, knowing what works, their material is mostly just nonsense.
These guys obviously are not making a living at solving home drainage problems under pressure, every situation and property being different.
The average homeowners home drainage information is likely acquired from the guys and gals in the plumbing departments at Home Depot and Lowes.
Find out exactly what home drainage contractors intend to do to your property right away, before letting them bolster up.
Study this very extensive tutorial on professional home drainage installation and groundwater removal solutions.
Start asking the kinds of questions that tell those pumped up contractors that they will not be successful trying the old stories on you about underground rivers and springs, all thrown out to you to start a fear factor, and to substantiate the installation of a sump pump system in the homes crawl space or basement.
If any of these so called drainage contractor characters, most of whom are just non licensed sump pump installers; can talk you into believing the underground rivers and springs story, you are hooked like a fish in the lips, thrashing on the side of the boat.
Many homeowners, under pressure, will follow the contractors suggestion to install sump pumps and do other dumb stuff too, in lieu of collecting the groundwater on the outside of the foundation first.
If a sump pump guy can get to a homeowner with a drainge problem, and a home in escrow, the very high possibility exists that the homeowners will pop for the, most often, less expensive, and worthless program, the sump pump installation, just to give the buyers the impression that the problems have been solved.
Which they never have been, because sump pumps do not stop groundwater from running below grade when it saturates foundation areas.
If a sump pump installer can get homeowners to conclude, as a result of his theatrics and feigned exasperation, following the underground rivers and springs story, that homeowners will always have groundwater to pump, as a result of this geological groundwater river and spring problem under the home; you are only a few decisions away from blowing some serious cash on a scam, many many times.
I am surprised those guys don’t try to sell the Ross Island Bridge too.
It seems as impossible to believe as that homeowners would, over and over again, decade after decade, opt for the cheap trick that does not prevent groundwater from entering below grade, and only makes the interior crawl space moisture problem worse, and again install a sump pump.
The perfect homeowner karma is when non drainage problem disclosing home sellers do the cheap, worthless, sump pump installation, and then lose the home transaction anyway, due to some other kink, and wind up owning the home still, with what they really know by that time, is a worthless sump pump system, that will only make matters worse for these homeowners as they again try to sell the home, and deal again with the same problem, after another report and more sump pump guys being paraded through the home, at the request of the home inspector, many times.
Besides, the groundwater problems were not solved, so the home can still not be sold and financed.
These homeowners just got burned for between $1500.-$4000. perhaps, and have a worse problem than had previously existed as a result.
The next buyers they get will also discover the drainage problem, and perhaps will know the difference early in the first showing of the home, demanding that if the sellers want to sell it, for them to step up and install professional hand excavated french drains, prior to escrow closing, at the sellers cost, or bye bye.
The home sellers get drainage double dipped. Happens all the time.