He wrote: “I recently moved into a new home with an areaway – a stairwell leading to a below-ground basement. The bottom of the well has a drain that ... seems to be a design flaw ...

Q: The sump basin in my basement floor fills all the ... Under the concrete floor can be what's called a French drain system and that's basically a series of perforated drain piping in crushed ...

I’m building a new home and want my basement as dry as the Atacama Desert. I’m confident that my drain tile was not put in correctly at my last house. What are the best practices when ...

The drain was normally perforated flexible plastic pipe – three or four inches in diameter — placed in a bed of gravel. Then gravel was spread over the earth of the basement floor to a ...

Every drain in your house - sinks, toilets, showers and laundry - goes to the main stack that runs under your basement floor. The stack leads to the sanitary sewer line in the street and ...