“…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. We hope you find yourself dry when walking down your basement stairs, but with statistics as high as 1 in 50 homeowners needing waterproofing contract work at some point, this […]
A below-ground basement in a 25-year-old home located in Hoover’s Inverness area recently had a basement leak. The house had previously been waterproofed with an exterior system, complete with a footing drain and a a membrane coating over the walls. Unfortunately, this type of waterproofing system nearly always fails sooner or later. In this case, […]
If you’ve been wondering why basements leak, we’ve got you covered. Here are five points that will help explain what’s happening. As the ground around your basement becomes saturated with water, pressure builds against the structure (62.4 lbs. per cubic foot of pressure to be exact). The rising water then seeks cracks and weak points […]