We sit for hours endlessly watching entertainment and listening to the soothing sounds of music. Yet many homeowners refuse to fix home drainage problems that they know exist.

Homeowners are playing with fire as it pertains to the air they are breathing, and their families health. It is not something that bites you until later in life.

Estimates from world health organizations indicate that many homes contain airborne asbestos, mold, mildew, radon from decaying soils, and other airborne toxins. This fact means that millions of homeowners are willingly shortening their lives by not cleaning up the air in their home with groundwater removal systems such as hand excavated french drains.

The mold and mildew that homes with groundwater problems are subject to can cause serious respiratory illness in children and adults. Home drainage is important to provide the home with clean, dry air with which to breathe. Home drainage is not a luxury to be afforded after creature comforts are all plumped out.

Home drainage success will not become a reality when your definition of home drainage success is accepting the low bid to just pump out the groundwater continuously, after it has entered your crawlspace or basement, without collecting the groundwater on the outside of the home with hand excavated french drains to prevent the groundwater saturation and hydrostatic pressure that causes the leaking of groundwater below grade.

This basic concept of home drainage is one that many homeowners do not acknowledge.

To protect your respiratory environment, remove the groundwater with hand excavated french drains before the groundwater saturates your foundation area.

Pure, simple, and effective home drainage since before modern history. This knowledge should be a prerequisite of buying a home. The lender should require potential homeowners to certify and acknowledge this understanding. This would raise the quality of all homes on the market for sale, and protect the lenders investment as well as the homeowners family.