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A finished basement changes the way a home lives. It becomes a family room, guest suite, office, gym, playroom, or rental space. It also becomes expensive s…

Moisture problems rarely announce themselves with drama at first. More often, they creep in quietly. A faint musty smell in the basement after rain. Paint t…

Water has a way of finding the smallest weakness in a home. A hairline crack in a foundation wall, a clogged footing drain, a poorly sealed basement window, a…

Older homes across New Jersey carry a lot of appeal. Stone foundations in Essex County, brick rowhouses in Hudson County, colonials in Monmouth County, and …

Water has a way of finding every weakness in a house. It slips through hairline cracks in a foundation wall, pushes up through a basement slab, seeps around…

New Jersey homeowners learn quickly that water rarely stays where you want it. It seeps through hairline cracks, gathers along foundations, pushes against ba…

Anyone who has owned property in New Jersey long enough learns the same lesson sooner or later: water is patient, persistent, and expensive when ignored. It …

New Jersey homes ask a lot from their foundations. In one neighborhood, you can have heavy clay soil that holds water like a bowl. A few miles away, you might…