Home groundwater removal rules as important as the roof over your head
Home groundwater removal systems are as important as the roof over your head. When you build a home, the big push is always on to get the structure dried in, as they say, by getting the roof on and sealed as well as the windows and doors. This is the priority to keep the rain out and the home dry. Equally as important is to install hand excavated french drains after the final soil grade against the home is accomplished.
Leave enough height on the foundation wall below the foundation vents, if you have a crawlspace, to raise the grade and create a splash block of dirt and clay that can run the groundwater to the inside of your french drain.
It doesn’t make much sense to put all that energy into getting the home in a dry condition without making sure that rainwater and roof water doesn’t flood your lower level areas whether they are a basement or crawlspace. When you do things in the proper order your life becomes much easier.
So many homeowners forget about the hand excavated french drains as their major home groundwater removal system. The hand excavated french drains can vent the groundwater on the bottom of the french drain with a perforated pipe overflow and connect the downspouts into rain drain discharges that vent with solid pipe and also lay on the bottom of the hand excavated french drain.
A hand excavated french drain has a slope of approximately 2″ per 10 lineal feet instead of the builder laying the abs rain drain discharges on the outside of the foundation footing which is flat. Those rain drains plug in a matter of time due to the fact that they have no grade to enhance the flow of the water being vented from the downspouts.
If you are building a home protect your investment with properly designed, constructed, installed and plumbed hand excavated french drains. You will be glad you did. If you go to google on the internet and put in “hand excavated french drains“, “home groundwater drainage“, or “home groundwater removal” you will find AAA HOME DRAINAGE listed at or towards to top of the page. Look for more comprehensive information in the future on hand excavated french drains. We strive to be the best in the world at what we do. Hand excavated french drains are our specialty.