September ended on a split screen in Maine. The National Weather Service in Caribou reports Caribou had its 5th driest September on record at 1.30 inches, while a nor'easter on September 28 dropped about 2.17 inches on Bangor in a…
The National Weather Service office in Gray posted its forecast discussion at 6:57 this morning, and one line in it matters more to a basement than any temperature. Dew points are in the 60s through Friday, with lows tonight staying…
This weekend's nor'easter is putting water into buildings across Maine that stayed dry all summer (Bangor Daily News, 9/25), which means a lot of remediation jobs are about to start. Almost everyone asks the right question at the start of…
Every basement in southern Maine has been dry so long that homeowners have stopped thinking about it. Sump pits are collecting dust instead of water. Gutters have run empty all summer, filled with grit and dead leaves. Clay soil along…
The National Weather Service office in Gray put it plainly in its September 16 forecast discussion: fog in the river valleys by sunrise, a cold front Friday, and a weekend running 5 to 10 degrees below normal with frost possible…
Maine Listings released the August numbers on Friday: 1,542 single-family homes sold statewide, down about 10 percent from August 2025, with the median price up to $424,550. The association's president said buyers now have more inventory and more room to…
This is the week the calls change. An insulation crew shows up to blow the attic, the foreman climbs through the hatch with a headlamp, comes back down, and says he cannot insulate over what he saw. Dark staining across…
The fourth named storm of the Atlantic season, Dolly, showed up on the maps Friday morning while a cold front pushed showers and thunderstorms across eastern Maine. Dolly is weakening on her way to the Leeward Islands, so she is…
This week the CBS13 I-Team reported on a southern Maine contractor who has been ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in combined civil judgments to homeowners who say he took their money and left the work unfinished. One of…
On July 29, most of the laws passed in Augusta this session quietly took effect. One of them changes the ground rules for every landlord in Maine with a damp building. LD 1927, An Act to Add Mold to the…
