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Regrading to Fix a Wet Basement. 4k start to finish landscape project

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The video introduces the problem of a wet basement and outlines three potential solutions: regrading, installing a French drain, and foundation waterproofing. The speaker points out existing issues around the house, such as negative grading where soil slopes towards the house, leading to water accumulation and potential basement leaks. He discusses the overall plan to fix this by implementing a regrading strategy combined with a retaining wall.

Goal: Understand the cause of basement water issues and formulate a plan for exterior drainage improvement.

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  • Clipboard — Holding plans and notes

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yes we find out what's going on today hi Blaine what's your job we're gonna get the water to flow around the house and send it through the house what I think having a flooded basement really rainy at about 6 inches backed up is so we're not doing a French drain nothing like that okay he come show us what's going on a lot of times just so you guys know we have three solutions when a person's having praat water problems in their basement the first one we try to always do is look at the grades we always look at downspouts and gutters too though that's gonna be one of the first things I see none of that here well we look at the grades first then a French drain is the second option and then third option is full-fledged foundation waterproofing and then the last options into your drain tile whoo so everything flows right down to there everything from this whole yard comes this way this comes this way so under the vent okay so we kick everything this way so we'll get all this water to go this way to the side nice that sounds good the grading should be a great first step but if this continues to be a problem then we could install a French drain to get it right out to the property line just come come in right through here so there's the second option all right yeah but this is still higher than that approach yeah the hole and then you'll probably shave at each of the hill off just to blend everything so you're gonna borrow everything on-site no importation except for that's going to be Saudi turfy yeah yeah but that's gonna be tough to work with sand just down the road all right so before we can really

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