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One of the best ways to prevent your home from incurring water damage is with smart landscaping. Using landscaping techniques like grading, hardscape design, and strategic planting can help direct water away from your home. During the Spring, landscaping can be especially important. Even in heavy Spring rains, the right landscaping can help prevent water..

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After a fire is put out in your home, the immediate risk to your home is gone. However, there can still be a lingering risk from smoke damage. Fire can easily vaporize any material in your home. Those vapors can then permeate different surfaces. Once the fire is put out, those vapors stay behind leaving..

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Crawl spaces are areas of the home that aren’t visited very often. A homeowner may slip into a crawlspace to retrieve holiday decorations, to access storage, to inspect a strange sound, or to inspect a strange odor. While using your eyes is a great idea when it comes to determining if something “off” in your..

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  The simple answer is yes, raw sewage in your crawl space can make you sick. However, the topic must be elaborated on so that homeowners will truly see the dangers of allowing the substance to remain in their crawl spaces. Sewage or sewage-contaminated water can cause these five following diseases…   Giardiasis Giardiasis is..

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  Raw sewage can get under a house in various ways. For instance, a property’s main sewer line could become blocked. Then, if there is a clean-out plug missing under the house, a bad glue joint, a busted fitting, or something else going on, unsanitary water can escape into the crawl space. Additionally, a pipe..

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    Raw sewage under a house is never a good thing because the substance can cause various issues. For instance, if the crawl space stays moist, mold can begin to grow on wood, concrete blocks, and more. The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that molds produce allergens and have the potential to cause..

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