Mission Statement
The objective of this site is to provide information to the world wide public on home drainage methods, specifically the installation of hand excavated french drains to prevent saturation of rainwater around your foundation area, while creating a “green” way to solve a natural fact of nature.
Groundwater most always is caused by rain.
The rain leads to saturation, and the saturation leads to hydrostatic pressure, which leads to leaking groundwater below grade in crawlspaces and basements.
This site contains information for homeowners who want to do the work themselves, as well as the homeowner that needs information to understand the important factors involved in home drainage while choosing a qualified licensed, bonded and insured professional home drainage contractor in their area, where ever they are in the world.
You will find subjects such as home drainage techniques, and the logic behind choosing various methods of home drainage, and how to determine and perform on solid objectives for home drainage success.
Learning what constitutes value in the field of home drainage is a major objective of this website. This website is an advanced course in groundwater removal and hand excavated french drain engineering.
Home buyers and home sellers will both value the information in this website. Self analysis of a homeowners property, specifically the crawlspace or basement, is something that can save that homeowner thousands of dollars in repair expenses that can come with years of not knowing there is a groundwater problem, or not having the funds to solve the groundwater problem. Home sellers and buyers learn how to go about understanding the lenders, agents, and sellers motivations and cookie cutter methods. Readers will learn about earnest money agreement repairs clause preparation with respect to home drainage problems during a home transaction, and how to carve out of the condition that originally looks like a mess, a real estate transaction that gets free of the potential deal killer situation due to the fact that the groundwater problem that no one seemed to know how to fix, is now solved, and the escrow is closed. Happy sellers, happy buyers, happy everybody. Next stop, Disneyland.
Sellers will learn to maximize their return on investment by fixing groundwater created problems prior to marketing the home.
Buyers will learn how to successfully inspect homes for groundwater problems, and determine if the home’s groundwater problems are within the buyers comfort zone and budget to fix.
Readers will learn due diligence/fact finding as it pertains to home drainage problems and the structural damage home drainage problems are likely to produce in time in crawlspaces and basements that are not protected by hand excavated french drains.
Readers will find this is a comprehensive course on home drainage and groundwater removal science with hand excavated french drains.
Related topics such as masonry for homes that require masonry work to repair damage caused by the lack of home drainage will be covered in this website. Post beam construction, foundation structural concrete repair, and foundation basement wall structural/ cosmetic repair are also subjects of importance for the homeowner and will be covered as well.
Major topics will include hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems, hand excavated drywells, sump pumps, and other important aspects that pertain to home drainage, and the distinctions between excellent and poor home drainage work.