[TheForge] OT: My floor is poured: the saga

[wmullett at bright.net]

Jerry,

Actually, the backfill is very important too.  It needs to allow the water to get to the drain.  Don't ever put excavated material back against the basement wall unless its all sand or gravel.  If it's clay, you might have just damned of the drain. 

 

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>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:41:37 -0800
>From: "TheForge" <theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net> (on behalf of "jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT: My floor is poured: the saga  
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>I'm with you Walter. Just laying a plastic drain tile around the footing
>that daylights or drains into a dry well is more than enough to keep things
>dry. Harder but perhaps more satisfying to some folk is to lay  geotextile,
>typar to name one, around the footing and lay bone rock a foot deep and
>maybe one and a half wide on it and wrap the typar over it. Lots of folk
>have a weird thing about plastic and will go to all the work of laying a
>bone rock drain field rather than unrolling 30lbs of plastic drain tile and
>slipping the sleeve over it. 
>
>Andy, you're doing exactly what so many of us do when we're out of our
>depth, we overdesign things. Just exceed code by a bit and you're golden. If
>there are no codes there are standard practices for designing foundations
>and drainages. ILL at the public library if you can't find the ASHTO books
>online. No wait, get the current books; call the State Materials lab and get
>the titles. It's a public office, just be polite they are required by law to
>talk to you.
>
>Jer
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