Archive for April, 2009

Hand excavated french drain engineering stops groundwater saturation

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Hand excavated french drains that are installed professionally last longer and work better than those attempted by contractors not familiar with the variables and safety issues involved with hand excavation through unseen underground utilities.

You get a much different finished job when all the work, wheel barowing and walking with dirt and rock is done on plywood walks. You can pick them up, rake it out when completed and bingo, it looks nice, saves the lawn around the installation and works like a champ. (more…)

Weak reasons to cut up your basement floor and install a sump pump system

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I was recently amused by an article on the internet by a contractor who advocates saw cutting your concrete basement floor and making a channel drain. These guys are really trouble. They are rip off guys most often with one thing in mind, every home gets a basement channel and a sump pump as well as a drilled foundation wall. (more…)

Protect yourself from the home drainage sump pump flim flam man

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Professional home drainage contractors will almost always give a prospective customer homeowner a free evaluation of their property to assess suspected home drainage problems. Protect yourself from the many types of home drainage flim flam man. (more…)

Lenders will not finance homes with drainage problems

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Most home loan lenders are taking a different outlook these days on the property quality itself, future property values and expectations, and the sellers/buyers motivations with respect to the non-disclosure of material facts concerning home drainage during the sale of a home.

As a result I see lenders in my market writing a different play book for financing homes with home drainage problems.

Most lenders are not going to finance a drainage problem anymore unless the hand excavated french drains are installed before closing of escrow rather than a band aid approach to groundwater problems. (more…)