How Weather Patterns Affect your Home’s Foundation
Weather affects you every day. It can affect the clothes you wear, whether or not you pack your trusty umbrella, or even how you chose to spend your day. Although weather plays such an intricate role in our daily lives, do you ever stop to think about how weather can affect your home? Texas’ extreme weather conditions and temperature changes can have negative implications on your home’s foundation. Understanding these changes will help you not let your home’s structural integrity fall by the wayside. Hot Weather Texans are not unfamiliar with the heat. Besides making us yearn for the cooler months, the dry air and high temperatures can negatively impact your home’s foundation. The weather conditions associated with a Texas summer can cause the water in the soil surrounding your foundation to evaporate. As water leaves the soil, it starts to contract and can thus leave your foundation uneven and cracked. Heavy Rainfall Just as dry weather can affect the soil under your home, so can i