The weather and your basement are more closely related than you might expect. The relationship is most easily seen, however, in the hot, humid, thunderstorm-driven days of summer. The dominant element linking basements and weather is water.
The water doesn’t have to be flowing for the professional inspectors at the City Wide Group to pinpoint areas in your basement where the foundation leaks. Signs of dampness and foundation leakage can be as obvious as staining, rusting, dry rot, soggy drywall or mould and mildew. To many people the smell of mould assails them as soon as the door is opened. Efflorescence is also a sure sign of the presence of water leakage for water must evaporate to leave the flaky slats behind on your concrete floors or walls.
When the ground freezes and rain turns to snow it may be easy to think that your waterproofing problems can be relegated to the spring to do list. It is human nature to ignore an inactive problem but such short-sightedness can be a damaging mistake. If you have had a foundation leak in the past, you still have it and it is probably getting worse.
During the colder months, as Canadians tend to stay indoors more frequently, it’s a good time to assess the interior of your home for improvement. Perhaps you’re increasingly feeling the pinch of lack of living space. While moving or an addition can be options, a less expensive and disruptive possibility exists down the basement stairs. The City Wide Group can assess your basement for waterproofing and mould elimination and even underpinning to answer your basement improvement needs and living space dreams.
At the City Wide Group we know that one of the biggest mistakes that homeowners can make is to ignore water leaking through the foundation and into the basement. It’s human nature to delay especially when the problem is an unexpected one like foundation seepage. You mop up the water and hope it doesn’t happen again. You justify the delay by rationalizing that it was an unusually heavy storm, a unique weather situation. The truth is your foundation will leak again and the extent of the basement leak will grow.
