To the ground: Houses that is. I’ve been asked several times why they’re so low to the ground we can’t work beneath them.

I’m a little slow to answer that question. I also need to get the last installment in on the Water Under […]

I was on my way home from the There’s Water Under the House job when the phone rang. A do-it-yourselfer had gotten himself into a fix. The copper water main under his house had developed a pin-hole leak. He’d tried to fix it himself, but couldn’t get any of […]

I’m about 50% finished with the sump pump project. The work is slow because of poor clearances. Code says there’s supposed to be at least 16 inches of clearance. In the photo below (and many of the others I’ll show in this post and others) you can see that the clearance is closer […]

In this part of the world, the great, wet, Pacific Northwest, one of the things, architects, engineers, builders, designers, and home owners have to contend with is: Ground water. Because if they don’t, then that only leaves one other option — usually implemented after the fact. A sump pump under the […]