Every year the same scenario unfolds. Winter somes sooner than you think. The drainage market is brisk all year round, but when it starts raining in Portland, Oregon, it gets nuts.
The phone has gone off 21 times a day during hard rains, with customers angry, confused, and “stuck” with drainage issues that they knew existed prior, but did not handle. Don’t expect to find a quality drainage contractor who is not booked up.
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Real estate without home drainage problems have become the new day “flight to quality”. Why would you buy a home with a drainage problem, and non-disclosing sellers?
Our Oregon real estate market is under seige due to many concepts all at work at the same time.
Position yourself in the market as a seller that does not have a groundwater drainage problem if you intend to survive the chances that are coming down the road. Buyers are not going to buy into the old hype anymore. Quite honestly, I have given them information that no longer makes it necessary for the to go searching for answers.
An ounce of home drainage prevention is worth a dump truck of cure, after you are already saturated. In case you haven’t noticed, there is alot of inventory out there, and more to come, with impending foreclosures rising.
Lots of homes out there, few buyers.
It is necessary for homeowners to rise above the rest of the home sellers, to be successful at marketing a home in a market like this.
These homeowners better not get caught trying to lie to the readers of this site. They are going to walk on you, and find a quality seller. The quality home always follows a quality home seller.
That means having value added capital improvements installed to prevent groundwater damage, ie. hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems, installed at your home. Success is prevention. Pure and simple.
I can stop the flow of water into your crawl space right away, in the first day after installation, but it won’t dry out your two foot deep or deeper saturated crawl space floor, without months to years of work, depending on whether you stopped the groundwater from coming in to begin with.
The recent credit crisis swept in major changes for the entry level home market especially. Gone is leveraged, low down, we can get started in home ownership with this, sub-prime financing for homes.
The credit market of the past has been quite forgiving with respect to allowing buyers with less than strong credit a place in the home buyers market.
The more buyers, the higher the prices, and so on. It was good for everyone. Hum, or was it?
If you want to succeed in the market and stand above the rest with a fair market value, and something that interests buyers in comparison to the other properties out there, make sure you are not one of the many that have deferred maintainence in the form of home drainage problems.
If the topography slopes groundwater to the areas surrounding your home you must act by constructing hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems. I completed two systems as described above this week where the homeowner had a sump pump in the crawlspace, and always had a lake under the home when it rained hard even with the sump pump installed. (more…)
We are living through an epic saga of survival on this planet, predicated on groundwater drainage systems protecting us. We live on a water planet spinning in space. We live upon a massive sphere of rock and dirt, suspended in space, spinning in the middle of a solar system, dotted insignificantly among a galaxy with many other planets, moons, and stars and solar systems. When it rains, it pours, as they say. Often this water saga can dampen your spirits, ruin your possessions, damage your future, cost you money, and wash you away or worse.It is obvious that we are not talking about french drains stopping a wall of wall coming off the ocean. We are talking about seasonal rains that unless collected can place our possessions and ourselves and family in harms way, or send us packing in search of a new place to live.
This is home groundwater drainage: the blog. Now that sounds like a science fiction movie doesn’t it? (more…)
The home groundwater drainage questions most frequently asked are covered in this blog on groundwater collection and drainage methods. If you desire to be a student of groundwater drainage, you will find out the truth on the subject in this blog. There are presently many articles within this blog created through the experience of 2 major companies specializing in nothing but drainage and masonry skills required to solve problems caused by faulty, and/or no groundwater drainage. The subject matter includes hand excavated french drains, sump pumps, types of soils and methods used, rain drain discharges, hand excavated drywells, and many other subjects. Your ability to learn about these subjects and to apply this knowledge on a world wide scale is only limited to your attention span and desire to learn.
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