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

[Dan Brewer]

Here is a web site with some good instructions and products to keep you
basement free of water
http://www.mywaterproofing.com/Methods_of_waterproofing.asp The dimpled
material will allow water an easy path so it does not get forced into the
basement.  I wish the contractor would have used this stuff when my house
was built.  It would have saved a lot of agravation for me.
Dan in Auburn


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:36 AM, <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >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
> >To: "'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> >
> >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
> >-----Original Message-----
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