What Will I Spend To Clean Up My Basement?
A flooded basement is a costly experience, and costly not just in the financial sense, but in the physical one as well. When your basement floods or leaks, you’re going to have to clean out, dry out, or throw out everything, leaving you in a position to take on a lot of property damage and really hard work. The cost of cleaning up a basement after a flood or leak can range between around $1,500, not included property damage, to $20,000, and it all depends on a very unpredictable factor – what type of flood or leak you’re dealing with. Continue reading →
If your basement hasn’t been waterproofed, you might just find yourself in this situation, and it helps to know what steps to take first to minimize your property damage and save your basement from mold growth. Finding yourself with a wet basement is never a pleasant experience, so we want to map out your first steps to take so you can save your basement and a little bit of stress! 
Waterproofing can help your home in a variety of ways, and it’s really a smart decision for every homeowner to look into waterproofing and what it can provide to them. At AA Action Waterproofing, we recommend all of our Maryland area homeowners look into home waterproofing, and see how it can benefit not only their home, but their health. 3 ways waterproofing can help your home are: 
A little water is no big deal, right? Wrong! A wet basement has lasting repercussions to a home, and cleaning up after a basement has seen some moisture is a complicated and expensive process. Property is damaged, drying must be done, and every nook and cranny of your space must be inspected and thoroughly cleaned to avoid the mold growth that comes along with basement moisture. 
Why is my basement damp? This is a question that no homeowner wants to ask themselves. Unfortunately, if the question has to be asked, the best thing you can do is to find the answer; pronto! Below are 4 reasons why you may be wondering about the dampness along with some solutions on how to combat the troubles if they affect you. 
The changing of the seasons from summer to winter can mean a lot of things for homeowners. For those in relatively modern homes, especially those built this century, this is where you really get to see whether all those modern construction materials and techniques have really helped with energy efficiency and keeping the heat in the home and the cold outside. 
Usually when residents of Maryland and other New England states hear about another hurricane beating down on Florida and the Bahamas, the normal reaction is to sympathize with the people living in that part of the world, and get on with the business of daily life, thankful for the fact that this sort of thing never happens in this part of America. 
Ice is a force to be reckoned with. The Great Plains are what you get when enough ice forms all in one place: the landscape itself flattens out, with the only hills being the scraped-up remains of former mountains and the only lakes being the puddles of ice water which the melting glacier leaves behind. 
The most dramatic images that come from floods involve someone slogging through water that’s up to a person’s thigh or higher, and either he or she is working to protect an area from further flooding or else he or she is in a boat and traveling street by street either to scavenge for supplies or else find any stranded survivors. However, not every flood has to lead to canoes replacing cars, and even if it never reaches the surface of the earth a flood can do some significant damage to an unprepared basement. 
If you live in Maryland, you probably don’t think of snow as being the biggest weather-based threat you have to worry about from year to year. We’re as far north as it gets for the American South, and like the rest of the South our biggest concern is the heat and humidity of summer. However, we’re still far enough north that we can expect regular snowfall, especially as you move farther inland.