Abstract: A system for marketing applications having a computer processor, a display and a user interface for receiving instructions from a user. The user interface is operably connected to the computer processor. The computer processor is programmed to display an application menu on the display for selection of an application from the application menu by the user and further programmed to maintain a list of user-selected applications and further programmed to display a depiction of a predetermined environment on the display. The depiction includes images of applications included in the list of user-selected applications shown applied in the predetermined environment. The computer processor is further programmed to update the depiction of the predetermined environment by adding an image of the application, as applied in the predetermined environment to the depiction of the predetermined environment on the display, in response to a selection of the application by the user.

Abstract: Air vent covers for attachment to crawlspace walls, over or into air vent openings, to enclose the air vent openings and seal them against the entry of air and humidity from the atmosphere into the crawlspace. The preferred air vent covers comprises rectangular panels molded from durable plastic composition, with a flat outer surface surrounded by a recessed peripheral border provided with holes for receiving attachment means for fastening the cover to a crawlspace wall. The preferred rectangular panels are also molded with a recessed inner surface surrounded by a projecting peripheral border, and the recessed inner surface is provided with projecting reinforcing ribs which extend across the width of the panels to reinforce the panels against warpage when they are fastened to the crawlspace wall. Alternatively, the vent covers may be hollow tubular elements of durable plastic sized to be frictionally-engaged within an air vent opening in place of an air vent to seal the crawlspace wall.

Abstract: A wall paneling system including at least one finish wall panel configured to prevent moisture from entering an interior of the wall panel and having a finish with a predetermined finished characteristic thereon and a drainage system configured to remove moisture directed into the drainage system by the at least one wall panel.

Abstract: An elongate drainage conduit section comprises a channel portion having at least one perforated surface allowing liquid to flow into the channel, and at least one lower surface for directing the flow of water in a lengthwise direction. The conduit further comprises an elongate, movable cover for sealing at least a portion of the top of said channel portion.

Abstract: A drain system for draining water to a ground surface includes an extension pipe and a drain outlet. The extension pipe is capable of being disposed underground below a grade of the ground surface. The drain outlet is communicably coupled to the pipe. The drain outlet has a base and a cover section. The base has a drainage surface, a drainage end and an inlet section. The drainage end forms at least one effluent drainage hole therein. The inlet section is adapted to be coupled to an outlet of the extension pipe. The drainage surface is disposed for guiding effluent from the inlet section to the drainage end. The cover section is coupled to and covers the base. The base is configured for founding the drain outlet to the ground, when the drain outlet is coupled to the pipe disposed underground. The at least one drainage hole is located substantially at or above the grade allowing substantially unimpeded affluent discharge from the inlet section through the at least one drainage hole to the ground surface.

Abstract: A cover floor system for covering a sub floor is provided. The cover floor system has a plurality of interlocking floor tiles. The tiles have a cover floor surface and a grid of supporting legs adapted to elevate the cover floor surface over the sub floor and form a gap between the cover floor surface and the sub floor. At least two tiles are coupled together with a lap joint. The lap joint is formed by a first lap portion, disposed on one of the two tiles, and a mating second lap portion on the other tile. The first lap portion has a lower lap seating surface offset from the cover floor surface. The mating second lap portion has an upper lap surface seating against the lower lap seating surface and defining a substantially continuous lap scene along interfacing sides of the two tiles when the tiles are coupled.

Abstract: A crawlspace encapsulation system for encapsulating a crawlspace of a building. The system includes a substantially impermeable barrier layer disposed in the crawlspace and isolating at least a portion of the crawlspace from an outside atmosphere and an air circulation system located in the isolated portion.

Abstract: An improvement in an installation having a continuous water-impervious liner forming a barrier against the entry of water vapor and insects such as termites from the sub-soil into a crawlspace. According to the present invention, the water-impervious liner is provided with one or more access openings to the sub-soil, each covered with a flap, patch or cover which is openable to provide access to the sub-soil, and which is resealable to restore the water-barrier and/or water vapor-barrier properties of the liner in simple fashion as often as necessary.

Abstract: An improvement in an installation having a continuous water-impervious liner forming a barrier against the entry of water vapor and insects such as termites from the sub-soil into a crawlspace. According to the present invention, the water-impervious liner is provided with one or more access openings to the sub-soil, each covered with a flap, patch or cover which is openable to provide access to the sub-soil, and which is resealable to restore the water-barrier and/or water vapor-barrier properties of the liner in simple fashion as often as necessary.

Abstract: Lightweight, reinforced, non-biodegradable, tubular plastic footing form members and assemblies which may contain stake-engaging bores and/or are nailable to each other and/or to supporting stakes. The form members are water-repellant to resist absorbing and bonding to wet concrete compositions so that they can be removed and cleaned for repeated reuse. Alternatively they can be left in place, since they are inexpensive and non-biodegradable, and can support a porous drain conduit adjacent the formed footing.

Abstract: A sub-floor, perimeter, L-shaped water drainage panel for new construction basements having walls and supporting footings for receiving and draining water running down the walls and/or water entering at the wall/footing interface. The plastic drainage panel is molded with a plurality of spaced frustroconical wells on vertical and horizontal sections thereof, to engage the wall and footing, and space the panels therefrom and to be filled with wet concrete composition, when the floor is poured, to support the wall and footing against the basement floor and prevent relative movement therebetween.

Abstract: A system for encapsulating a crawlspace against the entry of sub-soil water vapor and also against the entry of external ground water from the crawlspace walls and for completely isolating the building from water vapor from the earth. The present system comprises applying over the floor of the crawlspace, generally a dirt floor but sometimes a poured concrete floor, a continuous durable sealed plastic film barrier layer or laminate, and extending the barrier film vertically-upwardly to cover and seal the interior peripheral walls enclosing the crawlspace to an elevation at least slightly greater than the elevation of the ground in contact with the exterior surfaces of the peripheral walls and preferably to the tops of the peripheral walls. This encapsulates the dirt surface of the entire crawlspace against the penetration of external ground water or floor water and also sub-soil water and water vapor onto the surface of the plastic barrier film and into the crawlspace atmosphere.

Abstract: Lightweight, reinforced, non-biodegradable, tubular plastic footing form members and assemblies which may contain stake-engaging bores and/or are nailable to each other and/or to supporting stakes. The form members are water-repellant to resist absorbing and bonding to wet concrete compositions so that they can be removed and cleaned for repeated reuse. Alternatively they can be left in place, since they are inexpensive and non-biodegradable, and can support a porous drain conduit adjacent the formed footing.

Abstract: A sub-floor, perimeter, L-shaped water drainage panel for new construction basements having walls and supporting footings for receiving and draining water running down the walls and/or water entering at the wall/footing interface. The plastic drainage panel is molded with a plurality of spaced frustroconical wells on vertical and horizontal sections thereof, to engage the wall and footing, and space the panels therefrom and to be filled with wet concrete composition, when the floor is poured, to support the wall and footing against the basement floor and prevent relative movement therebetween.

Abstract: A method for repairing and concealing a crack in the interior surface of a basement wall, and for draining water admitted through the crack into a drain at the base of the wall. The method involves the steps of covering the crack, along the length thereof and down to the drain, with a thin, narrow strip of a water-absorbing, water-wicking fabric such as a layer of plastic foam or woven cotton. Thereafter a thin barrier layer of an elastomeric caulk composition is spread thereover and beyond the edges thereof onto the surface of the basement wall to channel the flow of water from the wall crack, through the layer of wicking fabric, and down into the drain.

Abstract: A stand for supporting sump pumps within a sump container at an elevation above the floor of the container, having an out-of-round somewhat-circular platform having a weakened partition line for breaking or cutting the platform into two similar somewhat semi-circular half-platforms. The platform has a plurality of spaced peripheral legs fastened thereto and a plurality of closely-spaced central legs fastened to the undersurface adjacent the center thereof, whereby the stand can support two sump pumps, side-by-side, above the floor of the container and to avoid any clogging of the pumps with dirt or mud present on the container floor. The platform can be divided along the partition line to produce two similar stackable half-stands, each half-stand having at least two peripheral legs and at least one central leg for supporting a single sump pump within a sump container adjacent the interior wall thereof.

Abstract: Sump container designed to permit gravity flow of flood water from a basement floor through the cover into the sump container and to permit the pumping of water from the container through a discharge conduit passing through an opening in the cover. The cover has a transverse opening to receive a discharge conduit for water pumped from the container to an outside drain, a dividing line through the transverse opening and separating said cover into two removable cover sections, and an air-sealed water inlet through the cover to permit flood water to flow into the container while retarding the escape of odor, radon, moisture and pump noise from the container.

Abstract: An elongate ground gutter device designed to be substantially recessed in the ground with the central trough section thereof open above ground. The gutter device is designed to communicate with the downspout of a roof gutter to receive rain water into the trough section and transport it a distance away from the building. The gutter device comprises a trough section having vertical walls terminating in upper reinforcement sections which are supported on the ground surface, and a pair of lower horizontal flanges which are buried below ground, parallel to and underlying the reinforcement sections.

Abstract: A product/installation service proposal booklet for use in estimating the cost of installing proposed systems including such products, for quick review and acceptance by a customer. The booklet comprising a cover sheet and a multi-sheet, pressure-duplicating proposal order form group including an original order form sheet and at least one duplicate customer copy order form sheet, which are bonded together along one side edge of each, the undersurface of the cover sheet facing the face of the original order form sheet when the booklet is opened, being a product menu sheet illustrating and identifying specific products, one or more of which are to be included within the proposed systems. The face of the contractual proposal original order form sheet, and of the duplicate copies, carry a list of the specific products corresponding to those illustrated and identified on the facing menu sheet, and associated areas for designating the number of those of such products included within the proposal.

Abstract: System for preventing the accumulation of water within exterior foundation areas, such as basement window wells, even under conditions of extreme groundwater flow. The system comprises a combination of an upper horizontal conduit section which extends out through a bore in a basement wall and opens into the dry well area within an exterior basement window well, and has an opposed end which opens at the interior surface of the basement wall, and an elongate, vertical stepped wall panel having a central stand-off conduit section and opposed vertical seat portions which sealingly-engage the interior surface of the basement wall and form therebetween the central, vertical, raised or stand-off water-conveying conduit section.