DEAR TIM: My last house had a basement that leaked water. I’m building a new home and want my basement as dry as the Atacama Desert. I’m confident that my drain tile was not put in correctly at my ...

Q. A corner of my garden has poor drainage and I have lost a lot of plants there over the years. A friend told me to put in a dry well. What is a dry well and will that help? A. A dry well is unlikely ...

I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

MAYVILLE, N.D. - Field drainage seems like an old story in the Red River Valley, but until recently, it's been mostly "surface" drainage. In the past few years - especially the past two - there's been ...

My last house had a basement that leaked water. I’m building a new home and want my basement as dry as the Atacama Desert. I’m confident that my drain tile was not put in correctly at my last house.