U.S. Waterproofing Featured on WGN News Explaining Effects of Drought on Chicagoland Homeowners

Matt Stock Explains How Lin­ger­ing Drought Saps Mois­ture from Soil, Cre­ates Con­di­tions for Shift­ing, Crack­ing Foundations

Matt Stock, vice pres­i­dent of U.S. Water­proof­ing, appeared today on WGN-TV to explain to Chica­go-area home­own­ers how the cur­rent high heat and lack of rain may cause soil con­di­tions con­ducive to the crack­ing and shift­ing of res­i­den­tial foundations.

“When heat and lack of rain per­sist,” said Stock, ​“soil begins to des­ic­cate, to lose mois­ture and shrink in size. Most of this mois­ture loss is caused by trees and plants near our homes extend­ing their root sys­tems wider and deep­er in an effort to sur­vive. When this mois­ture is gone, soil shrinks and pulls away from foun­da­tion walls, cre­at­ing gaps for water to enter the base­ment when rain starts again.”

“More prob­lem­at­ic,” he added, is that soil under the foun­da­tion can also con­tract from mois­ture loss, caus­ing the foun­da­tion to shift and crack. We cov­ered this prob­lem I depth in our blog, Base­ment Mat­ters, just a few days ago.”

Based in Rolling Mead­ows, IL, U.S. Water­proof­ing is a full-ser­vice base­ment water­proof­ing and struc­tur­al foun­da­tion repair com­pa­ny, offer­ing per­ma­nent solu­tions for almost all caus­es of base­ment seep­age. With more than 300,000 dry base­ments to its cred­it, the com­pa­ny ser­vices res­i­den­tial and busi­ness own­ers in north­ern Illi­nois, north­west Indi­ana, and south­ern Wisconsin.

Award­ed the 2006 Torch Award for Out­stand­ing Mar­ket­place Ethics by the Chica­go and North­ern Illi­nois Bet­ter Busi­ness Bureau, the com­pa­ny is a four-time win­ner of the Super Ser­vice Award by Angie’s List. In addi­tion, U.S. Water­proof­ing Pres­i­dent Jer­ry S. Stock has been induct­ed into the UIC Entre­pre­neur­ship Hall of Fame. 

For more infor­ma­tion on its ser­vices, his­to­ry and man­age­ment, vis­it the U.S. Water­proof­ing web­site at www​.uswa​ter​proof​ing​.com.

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