Installing hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems has the effect of drying the soil around your foundation walls.
If hand excavated french drains are installed professionally, your… (more…)
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Install hand excavated french drains to keep pests from your home
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Ingress-egress windows, decks, and home drainage
Friday, December 11th, 2009Are you renovating a home? If you are planning on finishing a basement into living space home drainage priorities should be first and foremost on your mind.
The way that ingress-egress windows impact the home from a drainage perspective is (more…)
Install hand excavated french drains prior to finishing basement as living area
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Healthy homes are protected by hand excavated french drains. The fact that a lovely home looks like it should be on the cover of Architectural Digest does not exclude it from investigation and the possibility of it containing home drainage problems never dealt with.
When it comes to real value in housing nothing (more…)
Crawlspace and basement french drains with sump pumps
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Crawlspace french drains and sump pumps are seldom required and are always a last resort and not a first home drainage solution plan. Groundwater that enters below grade into basements and crawlspaces must be collected and vented on the outside of the building with hand excavated french drains in order to stop the groundwater saturation and hydrostatic pressure that causes the leaking. (more…)
Home groundwater drainage details count big
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Properly service your home drainage systems for best results. I received a phone call yesterday from a couple for whom I had constructed hand excavated french drains about 2 years ago. They are very nice people. The wife was highly suspect of the validity and usefullness of hand excavated french drains to solve their home drainage problem at the time of construction. (more…)
