Don't overlook yard grading

Keeping your home’s rain-shedding system working properly is one of your most important home maintenance tasks. It insures a dry basement, and prevents water from invading the interior wood support structure of the home. While there are a number of steps that help waterproof your home’s structural envelope, the most effective action is to keep water away from it. Waterproofing woks only to a degree, because as the old adage says, “A house is not a boat; a boat is designed to float in water, a house is not.”

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