Water & Drainage

A Sandy Springs homeowner called me in to look at a basement he had just finished, because the new baseboard was already cupping and there was a musty smell he could not place. The framing was tight against a wall that had clearly been wet more than once. He had done the fun part first, […]

I dig and regrade for a living, and I can settle most basement water arguments in about ten minutes with a hose and a level. Homeowners want to talk about waterproofing paint and interior systems. I want to walk the outside of the house first, because eight or nine times out of ten the water

A homeowner sent our office a photo of a white crusty bloom on their basement wall with the subject line “mold?” It was not mold. It was efflorescence, a salt deposit, and the distinction changes everything about what to do next. People see something on a basement wall and reach for the scariest label, but

When our basement first took water, I did what a lot of homeowners do: I bought a sump pump, installed it, and assumed I had solved the problem. The next spring the basement flooded anyway, from the other side of the room. The pump was fine. It just was not the tool for the water

The homeowner in Wash Park could not understand why water was staining a bedroom ceiling in the middle of a dry, freezing week with no rain in sight. The answer was on the roof, in the form of a thick ridge of ice along the eaves and icicles hanging off the gutters that looked almost