This month we are featured on the front cover of the Journal of Light Construction. Please click here to visit their website.
Leaky basements are the bane of homebuilders everywhere.
That's because basement problems are not only time-consuming to resolve, but chew up profits with such costly remedies as excavation to track down the cause. When the code changed, Leon's Insulation in Burlington, a supplier to Great Gulf and other homebuilders, was sure that its drainage systems division would take a whipping. Here I've seen builders switch insulation companies for pennies a square foot, but they're still continuing to use our drainage products. But in truth, it wasn't just a warm fuzzy feeling but hard cold statistics that convinced Great Gulf Homes to continue on with drainage layer installation. According to Great Gulf Vice President of Construction Tad Putyra, the firm has been using computer programs to track all repairs since 1985.