Specify hand excavated french drains for home groundwater removal
When you want to keep the groundwater from your crawlspace or basement, use hand excavated french drains in your home drainage plan. Hand excavated french drains are the oldest form of home drainage known to man.
To use the words french drain may be confusing, and not specific, with respect to the functional performance of the home drainage system. Always specify hand excavated french drains. Some things can seldom be improved upon with modern short cut methods, and hand excavated french drains are one of them.
Perforated pipe is probably the best modern adaptation to hand excavated french drains ever created. The groundwater still runs on the bottom of the hard surface that is accurately excavated on the bottom of the hand excavated french drain. The perforated pipe is just an overflow pipe that carries the groundwater faster during extremely hard rains.
Gravity is the engine, engineering is the professor, and educated hand labor is the magic. Use hand excavated french drains for success in your home drainage plan to keep groundwater from your crawlspace or basement.
Homes have changed over the years but the way to protect them from groundwater has changed little compared to the structure itself. Hand excavated french drains work as well surrounding a 16th Century castle as on a 21 century contemporary home