Assess Problem and Plan Strategy

good morning you guys we've got a little bit of a tricky situation with the grades going on out here and we're getting water coming into the building and you can see exactly what i'm talking about with the grades now anytime i go in to a situation like this to assess it i always come up with three i have three options when those three options are to regrade to get the water to flow away from the structure install french drains if the regrading isn't enough and then full-fledged foundation waterproofing where we dig down along the found edge of the foundation expose the foundation wall expose the footing and put foundation waterproofing membrane over the wall wrap it over the footing and then install a drain tile system i don't think we have to go that deep on this one i think we can cure a lot of the things that we're going to be doing right here just with grades alone so i always try to start with the least invasive which is grading and then go on from there but if you take a look right here you see how the the grades are pitching right in toward the house i mean you can just see this is this is way too high very typical situation all way too high now technically we're supposed to have eight inches above the sill plate i mean below the sill plate the ground should be that far below the sill plate and the sill plate is where the concrete wall hits and then there is a plate it should be green treated and then on that is where you're stick framing and what happens is the water will come down it'll hit the ground and it'll bounce back up you can actually see all the spackling right here you can see it's the uh the rain is hitting bouncing hitting bouncing and that constant wet dry wet dry wet dry leads to the rod that's why you gotta have the eight inches because it gives you just enough space that it just stays dry it's not constantly wet dry so we've got a lot of work to do here if we're gonna try to achieve any of that i don't know what we're gonna be able to achieve just with grading alone but that's what we're gonna start with the first thing we got to do is stop is just get this hill to not flow right into the back of the property