“…the No.1 kind of risk that the everyday consumer has is a water claim,” USAA assistant vice-president of P&C innovation Jon-Mike Kowall told Wall Street Journal. In this blog post, we are going to discuss the basics of basement waterproofing. We hope you find yourself dry when walking down those basement stairs, but with statistics as […]
This below-ground basement is in a 25-year-old home located in Hoover’s Inverness area and it had a basement leak. The house had been waterproofed with an exterior system including a footing drain and membrane coating over the walls. Unfortunately, this type of system nearly always fails sooner or later. In this case, the basement started […]
If you’ve been asking the question about why basements leak – we’ve got five points that will help explain it what’s happening. As the ground becomes saturated, water pressure builds against the structure (62.4 lbs. per cubic foot). The rising water then seeks cracks and weak points in the foundation caused by the natural expansion and […]