I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

DEAR TIM: My last house had a basement that leaked water. I’m building a new home and want my basement as dry as the Atacama Desert. I’m confident that my drain tile was not put in correctly at my ...

Water drainage is misunderstood by many homeowners, builders, YouTube personalities and building inspectors, if my email in-box is any indicator. I’ve lost count of the thousands of drainage help ...

I stopped by my new home construction site the night before the foundation footer was going to be poured to start to take photos. I saw several white pipes inside the forms and wondered what they were ...

Q: My house foundation was poured on a sloping lot. I stopped by just after the forms were stripped from the foundation, and I think the foundation was poured too deep. The ground on one side of the ...

My basement has a dirt floor. I am digging around the foundation walls to install drain tile that will connect to a sump pit, and then I plan to eventually pour a concrete floor.<BR><BR>I pretty much ...