Gravity flow the groundwater away from the home before it can… soak in around the homes foundation, and saturate the area.
Homeowners seeking home drainage solutions for their groundwater problems, should ask themselves this. Did that crawl space or basement groundwater leak appear before, or after it had been raining hard for a few days?
Hum. After. Right. That makes sense doesn’t it. It always does. It leaks when it rains. That is when everyone calls me anyway. Does that have anything to do with underground rivers and springs?
Uh, no, it does not.
So it isn’t a running spring or underground river that is running all the time, under your home, that is causing your groundwater problem is it. When it is not raining, your leaking stops, doesn’t it? It is not a spring or underground river causing your groundwater leaking, is it?
The very same rain water that was not collected along the homes foundation, during hard rains today and yesterday, will become the crawl space groundwater to pump tomorrow, and for days thereafter, in many cases.
The groundwater running below grade is there only because it was not removed on the outside of the foundation first, and is a major portion of the sump pump installers pitch, while trying to sell homeowners into a crawl space or exterior sump pump system.
Scammers at large. Caveat emptor. This is America. Let the buyer beware. It is printed right on your money.
It was all roof or groundwater that wound up on the surface next to the homes foundation, as it was raining hard yesterday.
The groundwater, once rain water, could have been removed within hours at that time, with hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems installed, invalidating the need for the homeowners, or any future homeowners, to ever get conned into installing another sump pump every again.
No more worthless sump pump installations, many that I wind up tearing out of homes, owned by financially and emotionally damaged homeowners, as a result of them being victims of this old sump pump installer scam. This occurs many times a year for me.
The homeowners with hand excavated french drains installed will never have to again listen to those lame sump installer stories of underground rivers and springs under your home, and perhaps even contended springs running everywhere in the neighborhood in general.
No more feeling like a deer caught in the headlights.
Teach your neighbors and family to protect themselves from this decades old scam, backed up by what I believe is a large segment of Oregon home inspectors, on the take from sump pump installers around the state, who I believe, from my experience watching them operate, are paying the home inspectors, for first right information and appointment rights, as well as referral fees.
Read in depth on this, if your interest is perked, in this web site, before you go off discounting my experiences on this one.
This covers the sump pump guys first introduction and first meeting rights with the homeowners.
Many of these homeowners, with homes in escrow, and drainage problems, can be sold easily, if the sump pump guy gets to them first.
Home buyers can be conned into thinking that a sump pump installation is a home drainage solution, which it never is.
If the home inspector, unsolicited, recommends a sump pump, even though he is not a home drainage, licensed, bonded, and insured professional, and has even recommended in his home inspection report that the homeowners call one, and a sump guy agrees that a sump pump is required, who is his buddy, most buyers will be conned into buying into a home drainage affected home, through fraud, as the home buyers only proceeded to close the escrow because they were told the drainage problem had been solved.
More on this in other articles within this web site.
Don’t just sump pump for life. What happens when everything is flooding and the electricity goes off during the big storm? Besides, you don’t want groundwater in the basement or crawl space to pump. That is the objective.
This web site holds the solutions to the most common groundwater questions and problems. We know about all the band aid approaches to drainage. We see these sump pump installer clowns mainly, come and go in the drainage business every year.
This is professional home drainage information about hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems, and other systems of groundwater removal as well, that are daily installed by our professional home drainage installation teams in Oregon. Fact finding and solving groundwater problems takes time and lots of energy.
If homeowners take the time to study this web site, and download my e-books, they can save themselves thousands of dollars by doing home drainage installation themselves, or they can, at that point, confidently hire a professional home drainage contractor in their part of the world, after reading how to go about this, how to understand the terminology and methods, as well as learn how to solve home drainage problems for themselves, without worries.
Occasionally a sump pump is the only answer. Very seldom however, if groundwater is removed with professionally installed hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems first on the outside of the exterior foundation wall, around 18″ off the foundation, at the base of a compacted splash block rain run off.
The determination of whether a hand excavated french drain can be installed at a particular property at all, due to the existing home site topography and other factors existing at the home.
A home drainage feasibility study, ordered on line, or with a phone call, for free, is the beginning of the end for your groundwater problems.
Call for a free estimate today.