During heavy rainstorms, water collects around this window well and floods in from the bottom and into the basement from the window. There is a downspout also 5’ to the right of it. Should I dig a French drain for the downspout and add a catch basin for water in the area? Fixing the grade might solve the problem also as there is a flat spot here.
I’m going to cut some of this downspout off and install this downspout filter in its place. I’m going to have to deal with the beige adapter. What’s the best way to remove it? Obviously I haven’t done any of the work just yet, and can’t tell if it’s glued or friction-fit.
French drain from gutter is clogged with dirt
What options i have ?
About to start some hardscape project, and there appears to be some water collecting in this area. Probably from neighbors drip irrigation, where water is riding down through the clay and along the wall footing, surfacing right at the base on my lower grade side.
Should I have contractor dig down to the footing and put an EZ drain? Or what is the the most practical way to mitigate this?
I’m a new home owner and because we live near the bottom of a a hill, all of the water from our neighbors upstream is pooling in my yard. This wouldn’t bother me too much except that our yard and concrete patio pad are both sloped towards the house so the water is pooling around the foundation and then what I guess is hydrostatic pressure is causing the window wells to fill with water and then water starts coming into the basement from the windows. I’m somewhat handy but this is out of my realm. Some of the ideas to fix this were:
Can anyone please give me some guidance on what to do.
Edit: there is a drain in the corner of the yard as seen in the video and the problem we had with it was that the water was pooling nearby but it wasn’t high enough to reach the drain so we had to kind of dig out a bit around it so that water could even enter it. I’m not sure if it’s okay to leave it this way or not.
My crawl space has some standing water. It is graded fairly well to a low point but the left side takeson most of the run off and leaves my foundation wet with the low point is on the opposite side. The driveway is sloped to where I think water comes in under my garage and into my crawlspace as well. I want to install an interior French drain along the footing. I have seen people say that you don't want to dig to close to the bottom of the footing but if I lay a 4" perforated pipe there it would need to be 8" deep or so. Does anyone know the real answer. Will I disturb the footing by digging beside it. Any advice on if it’s better to add drainage to inside or outside. I’ve seen inside has less chance to clog and outside is more expensive. Any advice helps thanks.
Bought a house 6 months ago and have been non stop dealing with issues such as Ant infestation in rear wall, significant leak in rear wall, gas boiler broken when I moved in, gas stove unusable, maggots out back, rising damp looking like someone had just run a bottle of water around the walls etc with the list I have I could go on. Sellers and their solicitors completely ignored contact.
Yesterday in lean-to I noticed what I thought had just been the paint old paint crumbling was getting significantly bigger, previous owner had 2 layers of carpet tile ontop of original vinyl (assumed due to leak in rear wall). Lifted up to find what either looked to be carpet moths or maggots all throughout the green tiles underneath so chucked them out and while doing that found (photo).
I think it’s a drain directly inside my lean to? The pipe goes to the sink. It’s a foam pad with another one underneath but wrapped in a plastic bag, I can’t and don’t want to pull it up enough to see exactly but can hear water running from the sink in the lean to clear as day now. Surely someone can’t have been stupid enough to do this, right? Also is it even legal to sell a house with an undisclosed drain inside the house?
Hello- I was working on regrading the side of my house and accidentally hit the gutter pipe that takes it to the street. When I dug it up I found a different type of pipe every 12-36 inches electrical taped to the next. Sooo I replaced the whole thing with SDR 35. I’m currently dry fit and working on getting the slope of the pipe as good as I can. Then plan to add loose dirt under the pipe, ramp it down, glue pipes in place, cover pipes and grade dirt away from the house.
Any suggestions on what I need to do to finish the job? less
The white open pipe currently receives a copper down spout. The 1.5inch abs pipe would be joined to the white pipe just above the clear out.
New home owner. Will digging a small trench around the concrete base and adding gravel help with this?
