Dealing with a wet basement, Part 1
Every day we find ourselves in situations where they say "ah, if I could have done that another way. "Well, this could be your chance!. When you begin to investigate a problem in the basement, you will find many companies that seek offer the latest and greatest in the basement waterproofing or intends to have all the answers and the best systems. Often, they throw every line of steel you can think of to convince you that you're the best! But closer inspection, once it reaches the heart the case, you will find that they use the same out of the current methods of reviewing all the dams and drainage systems within one else does. Worse employing polished sales techniques that you would find in any used car lot! It's all a bunch of double talk, lies at full speed and bad direction, that is designed to with an Eskimo, including the purchase of ice cubes!
Now I know that right now I'm going to ask how you can trust me and the reason is simple I'm not trying to sell you anything! I promise you, if you listen to all I have to say, and finish reading this letter, the final result be more knowledgeable than I had before, and you'll be ready for slick salesmen who come in the future! I want to be better informed, better prepared and better equipped than they are now, and I want to let you in on a few trade secrets that other companies do not want you to know. Before going into all the systems, I'd like this, and a bit about my background makes me uniquely qualified to help you understand how to solve the water in your basement or your problem Mold!
I began to build basements for over twenty years ago when I was still in high school. I have a job to what has been become the largest company in the basement of Ohio. I worked in both the footer and the crew of the wall, so he became well versed from the outset in all phases of new home bases for the construction and basement waterproofing. Soon after high school I was hired by a company that performs environmental services, specifically remove asbestos from schools and public buildings (ie was in the mid-eighties when the government passed legislation to require that asbestos be removed from all government building). I learned everything I had to know about the flow of negative air pressure gauges air scrubber contentions and the basic concepts of environmental cleanup. Finally quit when I had saved enough money for college. I swore I would never put a suit or a respirator Tyvec again (these are the hot non-breathable clothes we wear in the mold and asbestos cleaning, its funny the way you get to Murphy swear not to do something). During these years, I began actively working on one of my many hobbies and I became an amateur mycologist. I built a lab in the basement … and built myself a box of gloves and began performing sterile culture techniques for the cultivation of all types of mold and mildew and fungi. Autoclaves Petri dishes and I learned many of the processes used in modern laboratories. I spores rays and cultural analysis. I think I had the equivalent of an associate degree in mycology. When I started college I needed a job, and I found a job for the third largest waterproofing company basement in Ohio. I was hired to serve their jobs basement waterproofing already installed, but it still leaked.
All installed systems with fatal flaws. They have service departments to handle the "problem" jobs. I became an expert in solving of these basements problem "issues." Then I started my own basement waterproofing. I realized early on that if I did not want service of my basement and charge customers each year to guarantee that the wood has to "solve" the very systems used to treat basements. I read all the books I had available on the subject. I did tons of testing in the first two years and began to "fix" every One of the problems he had found associated with different waterproofing systems available.
Most of the systems: businesses rely on an internal drainage system and sump pump to control water. They can call it something different, but a bomb placed under the floor is a sump pump, and drains are placed under the interior floor drains. This is just flat, not a good idea, unless it is the only option. I recommend that you do not rely on electricity in any situation that can be avoided. Some companies in order to confuse the client and gain a competitive advantage claim that only by combining the internal system with something else, usually some kind of work out (often dug only 12 inches) you can actually solve a problem as the young and old Chuck Little John.
About the Author
Charles Boday is a Certified Mold Inspector and Contractor, graduate from Certified Mold Inspector & Contractors Institute. He has worked with some of the countries top scientists seeking alternative poison-free mold remediation techniques. He has testified as an expert foundation witness and is the Author of the books, The Ultra Dry Basement.
East Cleveland
