Your Property Could Be Helping Your Basement To Leak
If your basement leaks, but everything looks to be in order with your foundation, perhaps where you should turn is your property. Some properties don’t allow for proper drainage, and this causes moisture to oversaturate the soil around the home, causing that moisture to need someplace to go, and finding that place in the tiny cracks and crevices of the basement in your home. If you have experienced moisture in your basement in the past, it may pay to take a quick look around your property to see if there’s any pooling or puddling around your home, and this could show you to the answer of what you need to do next. Continue reading →
While mold can be tough to spot, there are always ways you can pick it out if you know where and how to look. Mold will leave its subtle signs even when it’s tough to see, and knowing how to read these subtle signs can save you from turning a small remediation job into a much larger one. The 3 signs of mold growth we want you to look out for in your basement are: 
Mold? Gross! No one is eager to find mold in their home. Believe it or not, all homes have at least a small bit of mold in them. Though luckily, most of it is minor and harmless. However, some places are more likely to have a mold problem than others.
A house’s foundation is what keeps everything solid and study, but what happens when you start finding cracks in the foundation? Over time and sometimes due to certain factors, foundation can weaken. This can be a little unnerving since the foundation is such a big and important part of your home. However, there is a lot of misconceptions about why foundation repair becomes necessary. 
Whether it’s a smell in the air or a cough you can’t seem to shake, there are many signs that may be telling you that mold is out and about in your beloved Maryland home. However, most of us don’t know what those signs are in the first place. 
If your basement hasn’t been waterproofed, you might just find yourself in this situation, and it helps to know what steps to take first to minimize your property damage and save your basement from mold growth. Finding yourself with a wet basement is never a pleasant experience, so we want to map out your first steps to take so you can save your basement and a little bit of stress! 
Crawlspaces hold an odd position in a home: they are simultaneously inside spaces and outside spaces. Unfortunately, this in-between nature means they’re vulnerable to infestations, and insects, mammals, and possibly even nesting birds are all too happy to sneak in and enjoy the warmth and peace of a poorly kept crawlspace. Here are just a few uninvited guests you might expect: 
The short answer is, “everywhere.”
Every house is a bit different from every other, and the water leakage issues which one house faces in its basement or crawlspace may be completely different from those of its neighbors. That’s why there are a variety of options available for waterproofing solutions, options which generally fit into four broad categories: 
With so many home repairs, homeowners often take a sort of “out of sight, out of mind” approach, and wait until something really becomes a problem before working to have it fixed. At AA Action Waterproofing, we want you to know that this is an approach that should never be taken when it comes to your foundation. The need for foundation repair causes a number of serious problems within your home, and the sooner you have your foundation fixed, the more likely you’ll be to have a happy and healthy safe home again.