Can you inspect a home for signs of groundwater problems? What should it tell you if you are looking at a home to buy, and the home has a home groundwater problem in the crawlspace or basement, and there is already a sump pump installed? It should tell you that the sump pump isn’t a solution to the problem.
If the groundwater is still entering the crawlspace or basement, would a reasonable mind assume that the sump pump is a solution to the problem, or a bandaid? (more…)
Sump pumps will not solve your home drainage problem. Sump pumps do not prevent groundwater from saturating and running below grade into crawl spaces. While many installers of sump pumps pitch a, “guarantee”, (more…)
One day last spring I was called by a homeowner to look at a home that I was told had a home drainage problem. Another day at the business of being a home drainage contractor. Upon arriving at the property and meeting the homeowner, I was confronted with a home that, I later found out, had sold for $1,100,000. and was simply a home drainage nightmare. But this was not to be the greatest challenge of the morning. (more…)
It seems obvious to me that the group of home buyers that were most singled out, and blamed for the sub-prime mortgage crisis is the very group of home buyers that will lead this home market out of the depressed cycle of fear and loathing that it previously suffered from. The phone has been ringing with folks needing to solve home drainage problems prior to closing escrow on a new home. (more…)
