Instead, the stone walls are hollow – creating the perfect void for water to pool inside. When Wright first built the house in the mid-1930s, he filled the hollow walls with pieces of ...

In one home I worked on, liquid water was oozing through a hollow block wall so fast during wet times of the year that you could see it flowing. After coating the wall with Watertite when outdoor ...

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