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Olivieri and Son can stop the water from invading your basement
Springtime is typically the most stressful time of the year for basement walls, says Mark Olivieri, of Olivieri and Son, the father and son basement waterproofing specialists. That, he explains, can be both a problem and an opportunity. The bad news is, if your foundation has been compromised by major cracks and shifting, the high pressure...
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Seal your driveway, before it's too late
When I was thirteen, my older brother played a prank on me that, looking back, was pretty funny. He had just gotten his driver’s license, and he was taking me to basketball practice when he pulled into an auto parts store parking lot. He asked me to run inside and see if they had any “winter air” for his tires, as he thought they were...
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Waterproofing at its best
Many old homes have destructive water and cracking on their basement walls.Unfortunately, as Connie Lahr discovered, so do some new homes. Connie, a schoolteacher, bought her two-year-old Medina home in 2013. Within a year she noticed water in her basement. “I saw a line of water on the wall,” she recalls. “I had recently had a patio...
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Basement experts
The aftermath of spring marks an important time to check your basement walls. Rainstorms release an immense amount of water into the ground around your home, ready to seep through any cracks and put pressure on your home’s foundation. But it can be even worse. Because all that rain has to go somewhere, and some of it could end up in your...
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Saving the Baldwin House
Basement waterproofing specialists Rocco Olivieri and his son, Mark, have saved quite a few homes from major structural problems over the years. Last summer, they saved a piece of Strongsville’s history. “We could have lost the Baldwin House,” says Ruth Brickley, president of the Strongsville Historical Society. “The basement walls...
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