Understand the Problem and Standard Solutions

all right we are in the drain tile job from Hell project what I mean is this is no ordinary drain tole project the first thing I want to point out is a we don't like to do interior drain to project to begin with if we can keep the water on the outside from ever mitigating inside that's your best case scenario but sometimes that's not possible on this specific job site all the grades are set so high that there's no way to keep the water from coming into the basement so we've got to capture it before it floods out this entire project there's a few things I want to show you about this job this is your normal drain tile area so we've got a nice footing here we dig it out we put wheat board in and then we put uh 3/4 clear over the top of it a 4 in perum all right we're going to put the sump Basket in here because it's out of the way we normally don't like to put them in high traffic areas there's nothing different about it let's go over here let's show you why this is the project from he we don't only have one elevation we have three different elevation changes on in this basement so three different step ups and downs but guess what this house used to be a chicken cou it was never put on the