Home drainage problems cause mold and bad air in your home
If your home has groundwater drainage problems and whether you have a crawlspace or a basement, the end result is likely to be the same. Bad air, stale smells and mold that you must breathe while trying to live a healthy life in your home. A tough act to follow to be sure.
Many times just a losing battle. Mold is a sign of water vapor below grade at high levels. To reduce or stop that cycle of wetness, remove groundwater from the surface near the home when it rains with hand excavated french drains. Large amounts of water saturate your foundation areas when rain water stands next to your home during and after hard rains. If you do nothing to remove that rainwater first on the outside of your foundation, and try pumping or covering the wet areas without the installation of hand excavated french drains, you will likely not put much of a dent in the problem. You are pretty much like “the little dutch boy” in the storybook with his thumb in the dyke. Water weight is constantly added to the surface when it rains. Water weight creates saturation and hydrostatic pressure on the foundation wall.
When you cut off the water at the surface, the below grade “springs” usually dry up. Real springs that run constantly are very rare.
Even true springs in nature that run all the time are effected in degree by the rains that feed them. Work the problem from the outside in for the best results in changing that wet environment causing mold and creating a medium for pests to flourish.