I clean the gutters on my house twice a year—once in early winter to clear the leaves and again in late spring to clear the catkins. I was up there a couple of weeks ago and decided not to bother…
As I wrote in a recent article, controlling exterior water is the starting point for solving and preventing moisture problems in a house. In that article, I included a video showing how the water drains in my yard and what…
What you see in the photo above is common at construction sites. Once a house gets framed, the next step is drying it in. For the walls, that means installing a drainage plane. The one they used on this house…
If you have moisture problems in a house, it's likely that they began outside. And there are two primary places to investigate once you go outdoors: the roof and the ground. The basic rule for controlling water on the outside…
I got the shingles replaced on my roof this week. I've needed it for a while but held off for a couple of years. Why? Because there were a couple of things I needed to do at the bottom of…
My wife and I bought our 1961 house in 2019, and it came with a basement in pretty rough shape. It smelled musty. There was evidence of moisture damage. The slab was cracked along the perimeter of the exterior walls. …
Which roof penetrations cause water damage? They all do, of course. But some are more likely to leak than others. The photo above shows the back of my house. We got a tiny bit of snow on Sunday, and some…