Last week, I started an answer to L.G. about his wet basement. His house was built in 2008, so I have a pretty good idea about how the foundation and drainage system was supposed to be built. Whether ...

It's in the fine print where the bad news usually puddles and where, in the case of soggy basements, there appears to be conflicts difficult for the homeowner to resolve without help. On one hand is ...

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 last house.

Once the perforated pipe is past the house a few feet, it can transition to a solid pipe. The bottom of the trench can now be dug level so that it gets shallower and shallower until the pipe exits the ...

Editor’s note: In light of recent rains, we are reprinting a timely column originally published June 6, 2009. We have a 1973 two-story house with a basement that we’ve owned for about two years. The ...