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Your home is your most important investment. You want to protect it at all costs from damage that can sink its value and compromise its safety. Such damage can particularly come from water that gets into your home. You can keep it out by using professional waterproofing services.

Protecting Against Fungus Growth

One of the main reasons to use professional waterproofing in your home involves protecting it from fungal growth. Fungus like black mold and mildew can easily take root if water gets into your house. Even after the water recedes and dries out, it can leave behind enough moisture to invite fungus spores to take hold and thrive.

Within a matter of days, you could have mold and mildew growing and spreading throughout the place. Once fungus starts to grow and thrive in your home, it can pose a serious health hazard to people who have allergies, asthma, and other respiratory issues. Further, it cause extensive damage to your floorboards, walls, and ceilings. 

To get rid of it, you often have to pay for pricey remediation services. These services can require contractors to tear out key fixtures like the flooring, ceiling and walls. Instead of facing your home having to be torn apart because of fungal growth, you can protect your home from such damage by using waterproofing services. Waterproofing can keep out water that can lead to detrimental fungus like mold and mildew.

Improving Your Home's Value

Waterproofing can also significantly increase your home's value. When appraisers see that key areas, such as the foundation and basement, have been waterproofed, they may add on hundreds or thousands of dollars to your home's appraisal price. 

This increased value can come into play if or when you want to put your house up for sale. You can command top dollar because you have taken measures to protect your house from elements that can quickly cause the house's value to plummet. Buyers can appreciate that they will not have to undertake extraordinary measures themselves to protect the house from damaging water, humidity, and moisture. They may be more willing to buy your house instead of a home that is not waterproofed. 

Waterproofing can benefit the value and safety of your home. It can be a first line of defense against damaging elements like water that can invite fungal growth. It can also increase your home's appraisal value and appeal to buyers. Reach out to a company like Central Penn Waterproofing to get started.