Five Questions to Ask Your Flood-Control Specialist
A flood-control contractor salvages your stuff and protects your house's structure and framing. "We dry out the entire structure, not just the basement," says DiPrima. "Usually, people extract all the water, and a week later they find mold [... more]
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Spring Flood Watch
In houses without gutters, a drip line collection system will solve foundation leakage problems. French drains can carry water away from wet parts of your yard. In the spring, melting snow and April showers conspire against your yard, unleashing ... [... more]
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Water, Water Everywhere
If you think a flooded basement is trouble, just wait till the water's gone-getting rid of the mucked-up ruins and preventing mold growth are no simple tasks. One man learned this the hard way when a river near his home breached its banks. ... [... more]
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Your Basement: Why Add on When You Can Add Under?
An unfinished basement became a comfortable gathering place in this Massachusetts home. Sherri Martinelli, here with daughter Cambria, set out to create a haven for teens. Exercise is the theme of this partial basement renovation in a Boston-area ... [... more]
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Halloween Scare Tactics
A good haunted house must be an complete sensory experience. Much like clowns, dolls have a scary quality to them, especially when piled up like this. Eerie scenes like this can be set up as vignettes for your guests to view while walking ... [... more]
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Drying Out a Wet Basement
EXTEND DOWNSPOUTS at least 4 ft. away from the house and install a splash block to help disperse the water. A dry well fed by a 4-in. PVC pipe running from downspouts can disperse the water gathered from the roof. It should sit on a gravel bed ... [... more]
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A Cellar in the Basement
The finished cellar. The archway, with wall framed in, waiting for its door. Cedar racks help wine age properly. Smack in the middle of the basement of the Milton house, the This Old House crew found an unused room filled with cobwebs and empty ... [... more]
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How to Extend a Downspout: Overview
Rain gutters and downspouts provide an efficient first step in controlling roof runoff. But if the rain or melted snow channeled off the roof isn't carried far enough away from the house, it will collect against the foundation wall or footing and ... [... more]
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