MD Water Damage & Mold

Water damage and mold help across Maryland

A free service connecting homeowners in Baltimore, Harford and Howard Counties, Maryland with local providers. Describe what is happening, and you will be pointed to someone who covers your area.

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Why Maryland basements take water

The frost line here means deep foundations, which means nearly every house has a full basement — and the basement holds the panel, the boiler, the laundry and whatever the family stored down there. In the older cities, the sewers carry storm water and waste in the same pipe, so a heavy rain that overwhelms capacity comes back up through whatever opening sits furthest down. Along the Patapsco through Ellicott City, the Gwynns Falls below Catonsville, and the tidal edges of Dundalk and Essex, water also arrives from outside — and it reaches properties that sit nowhere near a mapped floodplain.

The rest of the time it is unremarkable and internal: a supply line that let go, a water heater at the end of its life, a washing machine hose that nobody had looked at in a decade.

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