Ask the Builder: Water vs. your home: You can be the winner

Unless you live in the Atacama Desert, you need to deal with water in and around your home. Even if you live in an arid climate where rains only falls a few months of the year, you have to protect your home.
Every spring I get more messages about wet basements and crawlspaces and soggy soil in the yard. I’ll share a few stories I got recently on the Ask Tim page of AsktheBuilder.com.
Sara lives in the greater Washington, D.C. area. A few weeks ago, a horrible nor’easter caused water