Mold and mildews are both common problems indoors and outside your home. Humidity in your home can be an indicator that you have water seeping into the walls and floor of your basement. Humidity is a key component to the mold growing in your basement and causing eye irritation, stuffiness, and more serious respiratory problems. If you have a family member suffering from asthma or other respiratory problems, the mold growing in the basement could be making their symptoms much worse.
What are some of the reasons you have water sitting on the floor of the basement of your home?
Clogged gutters
If the gutters of your home are full of debris, the water may not be finding the correct pathway and overflowing. Ensuring the gutters are unobstructed to allow the water to flow to the right spout is just common sense, and can save you some headaches along the way.
Cleaning the gutters of your home does not take long if you do them every year. Try to have someone to help you with the ladder and make sure you follow safety precautions before you start climbing.
Drainage
If water is just gathering around the foundation of your home with no place to go, it may be a major reason why you have water on the basement floor, and seeping through the walls. The drainage should be taking the water about ten feet from the foundation of your home.
Flower Beds
The flower beds should have the soil sloping away from the foundation to ensure the water doesn’t find a way to your basement. Bushes and other types of greenery should be kept trim and away from touching the walls of your home as well.
Mulch
Mulch should also be laid flat close to the foundation to avoid gathering water pools and eventually seeping into the walls of the foundation.
Driveways
Even if this is not as common, unleveled driveways can allow the water to run towards the foundation instead of away creating pools of water to seep into the walls and basement of your home.
Leaking Pipes
Indoor water leaking is also a problem if you have leaking pipes without knowing where they are. Before this problem gets any bigger, replacing those leaking pipes can be the solution to the humidity and water problem in the basement.
If you need to find a solution to the water in the basement of your home, contact us, we will be happy to talk to you and offer a solution to your problem that makes sense.
