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.

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Seems like human nature, with respect to home drainage, is not to worry about the long known, and long time existing, home drainage problems until seasonal heavy rains and driving snow sets in.

Homeowners should not be surprised that home drainage expenses increase during these times? Installers working under severe conditions require longer times for the installation of hand excavated french drains. This translates into higher prices for the consumer. Safety issues also come into play. (more…)

If you are experiencing groundwater in your basement or crawlspace, you likely will go through the process of educating yourself on various methods of dealing with groundwater problems and solutions.

The choice of methods is most often based on your objective. Keep pumping the water out, with a guarantee that the company will always keep a working sump pump in place, or prevent the groundwater from entering in the first place. (more…)

Study groundwater removal methods, and home drainage problems and solutions within this website course on home drainage to prevent groundwater intrusion below grade, and to prevent mold and bad air from fouling your living environment and ruining your respiratory health. (more…)

Crawlspace french drains and sump pumps are seldom required and are always a last resort and not a first home drainage solution plan. Groundwater that enters below grade into basements and crawlspaces must be collected and vented on the outside of the building with hand excavated french drains in order to stop the groundwater saturation and hydrostatic pressure that causes the leaking. (more…)

If you are one of the unlucky homeowners living in an area of the world that is presently receiving flooding, you need hand excavated french drains working for you to protect your land and your home.

It would have been better if they were installed prior to the floods, but better late than never. Even if you are forced to get right in the middle of the heavy rain to install them. Tough it out. Get it done. Dress warm and stay dry. (more…)

Google is a great service. On their home page there is an option to put on your custom google page called “stuff”, among the selections is the Einstein quote of the day. I highly recommend this for fun and fact.

Albert Einstein said, “education is what remains after one has forgotten everything that was learned in school”.

The fact that few homeowners understand home drainage is not surprising. Home drainage, groundwater removal, and hand excavated french drains are not on the average study roster in college, unless you are an environmental engineering student. (more…)

When groundwater really becomes a problem, you will likely know it. A home drainage condition will usually be evidenced by one of the following factors that becomes apparent. Sometimes the same old events keep happening, and the homeowner says to themselves, “there isn’t much water, and it only comes when it rains, so why consider it a problem”. (more…)

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. (more…)

The outlook for Oregon homeowners is wet, wet, wet. Rain and more rain. It makes us wonder if we will ever see summer again. As one of my customers said of his garden efforts so far this year, “I should have planted rice or cranberries”. Oregonians are not happy with high gas prices, dismal summer barbeques, and inflation setting in with respect to food, oil, and other services. The rain has not been much of a motivating factor for many Oregonians so far this year. The prospect of having to deal with home drainage problems makes them even more cranky. (more…)