The landscape and drainage surrounding your home plays a huge role in managing moisture accumulation beneath the foundation. Leaking landscape pipes, overwatered vegetation as well as poor drainage ...

WATERLOO | The city is ramping up its plumbing education efforts as it prepares to start a foundation drain disconnection program. Building Official Craig Clark said his department began fielding many ...

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 ...

Q: The lot where I'm building my new home is quite rocky. The soil cover is perhaps only 3 feet deep. Fortunately, no blasting is required to dig into the rock. What are some of the challenges I'll ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen puddles in the yard after one of the quintessential Dallas rainstorms. However, this standing water might indicate a problem: your yard’s drainage might be insufficient. Fortunately, ...

Q. After all the rains last season, I finally decided to check my foundation to see if there was any water. I was surprised to find several pools of water and even more surprised to see black mold and ...

Many homeowners in the Dallas area have experienced the uncertainty of heavy storms or days of rain on end. Not every lot is designed to handle excessive water properly, and too much saturation near ...

Waterloo City Council members voted 5-2 Monday to approve the second reading of the ordinance, which would force more than 3,000 homeowners in the initial target zone to make potentially costly ...