Expert Discussion on Drainage Solutions

here and then yeah so anytime that I go into a customer's house I I always try to provide the simplest possible solution when they have a wet yard and I always look at their existing grades so if the house is here and they have a negative pitched grade like this to the house the first possible easy solution is just to change that grade bring up some non-permeable soil and Pitch the ground away from it when I say non-permeable I'm talking about clay okay now clay has a great application and Clay can also be super detrimental deep depending how you apply that clay all right so we always look at regrading because that's the easiest thing we can possibly do that's solution number one solution number two you're seeing today that's a French drain and a lot of times what we like to do is regrade and then incorporate a French drain into that unless the grades are already good enough that we can just use a French drain and then when we roll into that French drain mentality we look at all right we're going to be able to capture the water about that far below grade but anything that's below that elevation we're not capturing so is being able to take this top grade and capture all this water to this point applicable or do we need to do something more so solution number two is confirm the grades are good and then install a French drain okay I didn't flick you off but I figured some of you guys would enjoy that solution three this is the most invasive solution you can possibly do and we've done this multiple times and it's hyper successful and this is where clay can be your friend and Clay can be your enemy you've got a wet basement you're sick of it you want any you're going to do anything possible to keep your basement dry this is what you're going to do got your house here your basement is here you are going to dig a wedge on the outside of your house it's going to be well I'm going to say twoot wide okay we just go bucket withd it depends on the the circumstance but we're going to dig all the way down to the foundation of that basement to the lowest possible point below grade we are then going to remove all of that soil a lot of times that soil that we're removing is clay clay is not your friend in this situation clay acts like Play-Doh and traps and holds water okay so you got this clay holding this water right up against the side of your house and you're getting mold and mildew in and it sucks we don't want that so we dig this all the way down to your footing now…