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Get Making Your Way Through Mold Remediation. Take a look at some of the frequently asked questions we get about mold. We can assist you with any of your mold remediation needs. Request a mold consultation today to get more information. How Do I Get Mold In My Home? Mold becomes a problem inside a home or business when there's excessive humidity or moisture for an extended period of time. The problem can originate from sudden water releases, like a burst pipe or large spill t

What is an ice dam? An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow (water) from draining off the roof. The water that backs up behind the dam can leak into a home and cause damage to walls, ceilings, insulation, and other areas. What causes ice dams? There is a complex interaction among the amount of heat loss from a house, snow cover, and outside temperatures that leads to ice dam formation. For ice dams to form there must be snow on

Is home restoration in your future? Whether you’ve just bought a house or are considering putting yours on the market, chances are you’ll need to make some repairs or updates soon. Often restoration can turn into a renovation and without proper planning, your project could quickly derail and become much more expensive and time-consuming than you bargained for! Starting with the correct approach can spare you some expensive litigation and frustration. Here are the 7 mistakes t

Spring is here and we the warm season comes also the rain. During this time of the year at Leak Doctor we do receive many requests for inspections. Often we hear from our clients that they did struggle with leaks for years. Some of them have been trying to call many contractors and attempting some easy fix, while some other clients did also spent some serious money but trusted a common general contractor and still dealing with leaks. What we often say to our clients is that a

Accepting That Windows Will Leak The second half was our dawning realization that windows are, by nature, failure-prone. It’s not a matter of if windows will leak, but when. Windows are complex, full of junctions, corners and seams — rife with opportunity to leak moisture. Easily 20 percent of windows are already leaky when delivered to job sites, based on sill dam tests. A certain percentage of windows will leak coming off the assembly line. More will leak after being packag

Among the foundation crack repair methods available, external crack repair is a good solution for leaking foundation cracks in poured concrete foundations. This waterproofing method is used when crack injection is not possible, or when a homeowner does not want to have a finished basement wall opened. About Foundation Crack Repairs Typically, we recommend, and our clients agree with, pressurized resin injection for most poured concrete foundation repairs because it is less ex

From reviewing the typical applications above, it is clear that polyurethane injection is an extremely versatile waterproofing method that can be used to deal with any basement leak in a poured concrete structure, under all conditions. This versatility is attributable to the characteristics of our polyurethane resins which are: Our activated polyurethane typically expands to 2.5 times it's volume; this is very desirable when filling large cavities or when the size of a cavity