Fall Brings Showers and the Opportunity For Homeowners to Service Their Homes Before the Holidays
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Nov.15,2009When spring and fall bring rain, homes across America experience seepage, flooding, and increased levels of moisture and humidity. Only a handful of homes have sump pumps or dehumidifiers to help their situations out. Even these measures are not enough, in some cases, to keep basements and crawlspaces dry.
While summer is a time for doing things, getting out the home, enjoying the yard or the beach and the winter is for family, each season brings unique opportunities for homeowners to have protective measures installed or their existing systems updated or serviced.
The majority of basement waterproofing and foundation repair companies in America work year round, which plays on the side of the homeowner considering that even in dry seasons, they can easily receive service.
Interior basement drainage solutions and protection can easily be installed and upgraded year round because of the benefits of working inside. Even during the peak of winter’s snowfall a sump pump could easily be maintained to protect the home for the coming spring thaw.
The misconception has been for years that if a basement is dry now, it will always be dry. This is simply not the truth. A basement is constantly surrounded by moisture and or liquid water. So it might be dry now, but it will always have the possibility of becoming wet.
With that new mindset in place we now get a chance to see the basement in a new light. Seeing as the foundation is one of the 3 most important aspects of the home, maintaining it and it’s condition are drastically important to the home’s overall health. Together with the Roof and the Main support beams, the basement and foundation make up the major protective features of any home.
Keeping the basement dry is a job that is hard to do alone, which is why sump pumps are installed in the first place. They are designed to give you the extra muscle, without the extra work of being down there yourself, bailing out water in buckets.
Having a non-functional sump pump in the spring or the fall can spell disaster for any basement. Having no sump pump at all is just taking a risk on the fact that a dry basement will stay dry forever.
Take the opportunity between rainstorms to assess your basement and foundation by having a Free Basement Inspection provided by a professional company near you. From there determine the best protection for your unique situation. Each basement needs to be protected and doing so is easier, cheaper and faster to accomplish during the down times for professional service companies. Make this winter the time you look towards maintaining your basement.
Jacob writes for Pioneer Basement, one of the United States top 5000 fastest growing companies according to Inc. 5000. Pioneer Basement, part of the basement health industry, is a basement waterproofing and foundation repair company that has been serving Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts for over 25 years.
If you’d like to contact Jacob directly, or have a question about basement waterproofing, foundation repair, or need your basement inspected: Visit http://www.pioneerbasement.com.
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