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How To fix A Wet Basement

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The video begins by introducing the problem: a customer experiencing water infiltration in their basement. The presenter outlines a four-part strategy for resolving such issues, starting with exterior grades. Using a laser level (implied by visual cues and discussion of measurements), they assess the current landscape. It is determined that the property has a nearly flat grade, with only a 4 to 6-inch drop from the front stoop to the driveway. This lack of sufficient slope means traditional exterior French drains or full foundation waterproofing methods would not allow for effective gravity drainage. Therefore, a two-part solution is chosen for this specific project: correcting the exterior grades as much as possible, and then installing an interior drain tile system as a robust backup to ensure a dry basement.

Goal: Identify the cause of basement water infiltration and determine the most effective waterproofing strategy

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Laser Level Not specified — Measuring the slope of the ground around the house to understand drainage patterns

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all right so we've been called out to this customer's house she's having a problem with water infiltrating her basement the first thing that we look at whenever we have an issue with water coming into a person's home is the grades we have a four part solution the first thing that is the grades the second thing that we look at is is it possible to do a French drain installation the third solution to a typical water and filtration problem is to do full-fledged foundation waterproofing which means we cut all the soil out on the foundation wall then we want to proof that foundation wall we backfill it bring it up and then click happen the fourth and final solution in the solution we don't like to use if at all possible is interior drain tile we like to try to keep the water outside of the home before it can ever migrate in but in certain situations that's just not possible and there's no guarantee that'll work that's when we go with an interior drain tile now on this particular project we're gonna look at the grades and try to rework the grades the problem that we have with this job is it's nearly flat there's just no place that to drain this water to if you look in the background you can see we have a laser setup and what we've discovered is that we have about a four to six inch drop from the front stoop out to the side of the driveway we've got nowhere else to direct this water so on this particular project what we're gonna be doing is cutting all these grades down and trying to get the water to flow down and away down through the side then we're going to implement the interior drain tile strategy just to ensure that she has no further problems with this project we cannot do full fledged foundation waterproofing because we can't get that water to go anywhere and if we go with the surface drain towel or a French drain situation it won't gravity feed out and so we're gonna do a two part strategy fixing the grades around the house as best we can and and using that insurance policy with the interior drain tile system to make sure that she can get have a dry basement and give her basement finish so that she can have living space down below okay so we're back at the site and something

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