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

[Dan Brewer]

The filal grading is also very important.  Do some looking on the web to
see how other folks have done the same thing.  One of the products is a
dimpled plastic that is put next to the wall after it is sealed .  The
dimples provide a free flowing pathway for water to easily move to the
drain pipe.  Gravel with a barier of lanscape fabric will keep the fine
soil from cloging the drain pipe .

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
wrote:

> That's usually right but in some cases impermeable soils can be used as a
> water barrier. In Andy's case though you're absolutely right, basically
> French drain the whole perimeter. Good point bringing it up my brain gets
> stuck on single issues like the drain tile and forgets the other things.
>
> Lastly would be grading the surrounding ground to drain away from the
> house.
> Well, right now my brain says that's the lastly issue but . . .
>
> Jer
>
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> 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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