AAA Home Drainage

Home groundwater problems are likely not even on the homeowners radar until they eigther sell the home and get a pest dryrot and structural inspection that indicates their problem, or when the rains come and the water starts pouring into the homes crawlspace or basement.

Don’t be the homeowner that thinks the problem will just go away. If you know you have a groundwater drainage issue now, it will only get worse and more expensive to deal with it in the future.

Throughout the year there are times when there is little to no chance of a homeowner getting on a work schedule, or even an appointment to assess their problem. This is simply because of the large amount of calls that flood in once the rains come. Sometimes dozens per day. Given that much of the work requires a week or more to complete construction, this limits the number of homeowners able to use my services.

If the old saying that “a stitch in time saves nine”, is true, I can translate that into drainage speak by saying “a stitch in time saves 99″.

I hope you are not one of the many folks this year that will be told that I am booked for months, and am not looking at any new properties presently.

Let’s get on those drainage problems before the groundwater saturation begins. When groundwater problems cause damage to your basement, the foundation footings, and other areas of your home, it is not too late to treat the problem, but the results are slow in coming.

Much like prevention in medicine is able to keep you off the operating table, so it is with drainage work.

Unfortunately for the Portland community each year I am impressed with the reality that very few drainage contractors do the hand excavated french drains correctly. Many of those that profess to know, do not.

Even more professed drainage contractors have their own completely different agenda and way of attempting to convince the market that their method of treating the problem will work. This is true even as they are doing work that “attempts” to treat the problems caused by the lack of hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems instead of actually preventing the problem to begin with.

Better think about it long and hard before you jump into treating your home drainage problem just because they say so. Do your due diligence.

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