While “deplastering” a 1911 4-square today (-5) no heat, I was pondering the springtime portion of the job. We will be adding crawl to 2 sides, the basement is poured concrete with no signs of standing water having ever occured, two still working floor drains. New footings will be 32″ above old work. SOP for basements is 4″ rigid pipe around perimeter with crossovers in footing, gravel depth of footing inside. This seems a bit much for something at a higher level, or is it? Or do we slope the cut away from, or to the center, or ? Good ideas welcome.
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Let's see - you are adding on to this house in the spring, right?
And the current house has working drainsin the basement but you want to only build on crawlspace stemwalls with the addy, right?
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Thats the plan. DW is not going to get any more long term storage, aready has 900 ft walk up attic.
so run perimeter drains at footer sloped away from main house.
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