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It’s not too late to beat the coming winter wet weather with hand excavated french drains. Protect yourself and your home from the damage to your structure and environment that follows without proper groundwater removal. (more…)

Pleased to announce the release of several new entries to my Home Drainage eBooks series. 

These eBooks are designed to help you avoid and diagnose drainage problems. It’s my objective to share my experience and help you preserve equity in your properties. You can download the eBook PDFs below.

eBooks currently available for download:

17 Ways to Determine If You Have a Drainage Problem
A useful guide for printing out and conducting your own walk around inventory of your home.
-> Download here

Brain Damage: Home Drainage Botched Big Time
Horror stories not for the faint of heart. Bad advice gone wrong. You’ve been warned!
-> Download here

15 Smoking Guns:  Groundwater Home Inspections
For those who’ve always wondered what are the key groundwater problems a licensed home inspector will look for. A must read for realtors and anyone buying or selling a home.
-> Download here

Hope you enjoy the books and thanks to all who have continued in supporting this site.

I recently was asked to be a guest on The Epodogy Podcast for a special show spotlighting Home Drainage. The Epodogy Podcast is produced by Media1250.

The show covers many of the basic topics I’m most often asked about such as what causes drainage problems, etc.

Please send me an email if you’d like to hear more audio programs. My mission is to help you resolve those drainage issues (ideally, before they cause chaos with your home) and I’m always looking to find ways to get the word out on the benefits of professional home drainage solutions.

Anyway, here is the show for your listening pleasure - hope you enjoy - and thanks!

Planning with contractors. Just what you wanted on your day off. The drainage problem. Oh joy. Can’t wait. Right?

The homeowner has probably never been able to figure out the cause of the drainage problem. Everyone that has ever tried to solve the drainage problem has failed as well. I would say that is more typical than not in my business. (more…)

Well, home drainage knowledge seekers, it is once again time to set up a checklist of items that will spur you into a self analysis of your home drainage infrastructure.

Studying about home drainage science will in the long run provide your home with a dry environment that is free of mold and mildew. Studying about hand excavated french drains will translate into a happy stress free homeowner with a quality home within which to live for many years. No more groundwater in your crawlspace or basement. No more health problems from breathing bad air. (more…)

If you do not have hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems installed on the outside of the home, also containing a compacted grade of dirt on the side of the home where you believe the groundwater is actually entering; I do not recommend installing sump pumps prior to construction of the outside french drains. Do the exterior french drains first. (more…)

Groundwater damage from the lack of hand excavated french drains to protect the crawlspace or basement, and the resulting residential groundwater damage, can trash your equity fast.

A recent visit to a wonderful old classic home in the Tualatin Valley in Oregon showed again exactly how years of deferred groundwater removal maintenance will cost sellers big bucks in the end. Pests, dryrot and structural repairs, and lots of lost cash. Worse than blowing your cash in Las Vegas. (more…)