Your crawl space may not be the most glamorous part of your home, but it plays a crucial role in maintaining its health and structural integrity. Unfortunately, many homeowners are living above crawl spaces that host a plethora of problems that could be easily avoided with the right knowledge and practices.
As a homeowner, safeguarding your basement against flooding should be a top priority. A flooded basement can result in extensive damage, costly repairs, and a host of headaches you’d rather avoid. But how prepared are you to prevent basement floods and mitigate their consequences? Let’s find out by asking ten critical questions to assess your flood readiness.
When the winter chill sets in, many homeowners experience the discomfort of cold floors. While this issue may seem perplexing, the root cause often lurks beneath your home – in your crawlspace.
In this blog post, we’ll explore how unhealthy crawlspaces can lead to cold floors and discuss the solution, crawlspace encapsulation, that can help you regain warmth and comfort in your home.
Waterproofing your basement is a vital investment for any home. A leaky basement will lead to problems such as damaged building material, efflorescence on the walls, high humidity, and mould issues. These are big issues because the air that is in your basement is the air you breathe throughout your entire home.
But which method of basement waterproofing is best? Interior or Exterior? We’re going to walk through the pros and cons of each so that you can decide which solution will be best for your home.
A drain tile system is a waterproofing system intended to prevent water from pooling around your home foundation. It is a simple and ingenious way to protect your home from harmful basement flooding. Most homes, even significantly older ones, have a drain tile system installed already from when they were constructed. In most situations, it’s illegal to not have it.
Drain tile sits beneath the foundation of a home on the interior or exterior. It collects water from soil and redirects it either by gravity or electronically through a sump pump to a storm sewer system or safely away from the home. Whether installed on the exterior or interior, drain tile performs the same job, but we’ll explain later on in the post why we think interior drain tile is better.