Drainage issues can quickly become a homeowner’s worst nightmare. Poor drainage can lead to property and structural damage, mold and mildew, health risks, and numerous potentially devastating problems.
Drainage Issues Affect Your Home
When poor drainage makes its way into your home, it brings with it a myriad of problems.
- Soil Erosion: Soil erosion sways the appeal of your property, although more worrisome is the damage it creates to plants and other landscaping features in the lawn, such as fences.
- Pest Infestations: Mosquitoes need stagnant water to breed. They can smell it miles away and swarm to it eagerly to lay eggs. If you notice massive mosquito populations around your home, drainage issues may be part of the problem.
- Foundation Damage: Foundation damage is one of the most devastating consequences of poor drainage. When water isn’t diverted from your home, it affects the foundation, leading to cracks, gaps, and other serious problems.
- Mold and Mildew: Mold and mildew cause odors to form in your home. Mold may also cause breathing problems, asthma-like symptoms, allergies, and damage to your ceilings, walls, and pipes.
- Property Devaluation: If selling your home is among your plans, drainage issues certainly impact its value. Drainage issues can make selling a property difficult or impossible and devalue it by thousands of dollars.
Madison Drainage Specialists
Southern Crawl Space offers moisture control services, including basement and crawlspace waterproofing, drainage system installation, and vapor barrier installation. SCS guarantees to fix your moisture issues permanently. Our trained team of technicians utilizes only the best solutions for your basement or crawlspace. We are proud to offer LumberKote ™ and MaxxBarrier ™ waterproofing sealers by WatsonSeal. We are Alabama’s ONLY Watson Seal Authorized Dealer.
If you have a service request, give us a call. We will happily provide a free inspection and service estimate.
