Expert Tips, Guides, and Articles for a Safe, Dry Home
Welcome to the Moisture Loc Info Center — your go-to resource for expert tips, guides, and insights on protecting your home from water damage, foundation issues, and crawl space problems. Learn how to keep your home safe, dry, and healthy year-round.
What are the Benefits of a Residential Sump Pump?
If you have issues with your basement flooding during and following storms, you’re not alone. A lot of the Charlotte area has issues with proper foundation drainage, which can lead to leakage and flooding if left unattended. Though we always recommend having your...
Keep it Dry: 6 Tips for Waterproofing Basement Walls
It’s not hard to notice when your basement feels damp. It should be a bit cooler when you go down there, but when moisture gets in, the air turns wet and heavy. You may have damp basement walls too, especially after a Carolina downpour. Basements sit below ground, so...
The Many Benefits of Utilizing Helical Piers
Whether you’re building a new home or business, or if you’re facing foundation problems with your structure, one option that many people are not familiar with is helical footings. Often falling in the purview of engineers and architects designing the structure,...
Top 10 Warning Signs that You’ve Got Foundation Issues
Foundation issues can cause serious problems for your home. But many of the signs of foundation issues are fairly tame. Are brick cracks or basement wall cracks no big deal, or is it a sign of larger foundation problems? What about issues with window or door frames...
5 Yard Drainage Solutions to Fix Your Yard
When your yard drainage isn’t working, it can be very frustrating and lead to mosquitoes, mud, and dead grass. If you’re wondering how to fix a yard that holds water, we’ll go over several yard drainage solutions that can help provide you with better landscape...
How Summer Rains Can Damage Your Home’s Foundation
Summer in the Carolinas brings two guarantees — heavy showers and intense heat. Between the downpours and the humidity, even the most stable home foundations can take a beating. As rainfall increases and storms intensify, it’s important for homeowners to recognize the...
The Process of Mold Remediation for Crawl Spaces and Basements
Mold remediation for crawl spaces and basements has evolved beyond its typical methods of sandblasting and scraping. Dry Ice blasting – also known as dry ice cleaning, CO2 cleaning, or environmentally sustainable cleaning – is the new standard for mold removal and...
Summer Checklist: Signs That Your Crawl Space Could Be in Danger
Summer months in the Carolinas bring more than sunshine and long days—they also bring high humidity, intense rainstorms, and the kind of moisture that can wreak havoc on an unprotected crawl space. Excess moisture doesn’t just stay below your home—it affects your air...
A Diagnosis & Solution to Bowed Foundation Walls
Basement walls take pressure from many different sources. When water causes the soil around them to expand and contract, or your home starts to settle, your foundation walls will begin to bow. If you own or are looking to buy a home with bowing or buckling foundation...
How to Achieve Better Yard Drainage This Summer
Every Charlotte summer brings the same question to everyone’s yard: to puddle or not to puddle? If yours is a puddling yard, it’s worth knowing why before you decide what to do about it. This post covers what causes many Charlotte yards to flood in the summer, how to...
Everything You Need to Know About Household Mold and Your Health
Everyone has almost certainly had some experience with household mold. It creeps up when you least suspect it, and it can be very hard to get rid of. This growth is annoying at best, and destructive and unhealthy at worst. It’s important to be educated about this pest...
4 Tips to Reduce Energy Costs This Winter
The holiday season has come and gone, and now the Carolinas are facing the coldest months of the year. While winter weather brings cozy nights indoors, it can also bring higher heating bills if your home isn’t properly sealed and insulated. For many homeowners, the...