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Ask the Builder: Water Infiltration the No. 1 Problem Homeowners Face

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Ask the Builder: Water Infiltration the No. 1 Problem Homeowners Face
The ground slopes away from the foundation of this house in both directions, as it should. The siding is level, and you can see how there is more exposed foundation on the left than on the right. Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency/TNS
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I’m helping my son on the weekends to finish the basement in his 3-year-old house. He’ll be adding 1,300 square feet of finished living space. A few days ago, we met with the local building inspector. Donna gave us the thumbs up on the framing, plumbing and all the electrical rough installations. She’s been doing inspections in Nashua, New Hampshire, for 18 years.

At the end of the inspection, she discovered I was the Ask the Builder guy.

Tim Carter
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Tim Carter is the founder of AsktheBuilder.com. He's an amateur radio operator and enjoys sending Morse code sitting at an actual telegrapher's desk. Carter lives in central New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Willow. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. He now does livestreaming video M-F at 4 PM Eastern Time at youtube.com/askthebuilder. (C)2022 Tim Carter. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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