Dealing with a damp basement is annoying enough, but seeing water leaking through cracks in the foundation or mortar joints can feel downright overwhelming. The good news is there are solutions that ...

A bowing foundation wall is never a good sign. If a homeowner sees a slight bowing in a wall, it’s important for them to take swift action. Repairing a bowing basement wall before it becomes a ...

So I live in an area with a very high clay content in the soil. The entire neighboorhood also happens to be built on natural springs. So the water table is alreayd pretty high. The basement walls had ...

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A flooded basement is more than a nuisance, it's an electrocution hazard. Let's say you've got an inch or so of water in the basement. Assuming the service panel is also in the basement, you can put ...

Q • With the recent rain, we got water in our basement for the first time ever. We think it may have been because we forgot to clean our gutters. However, it did get the walls wet toward the bottom.

Q: My house was built in the '40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that's peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch. In ...

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