Hi,
I am putting an egress window in my basement. I have an interior perimeter drain that connects to a sump pump. I am thinking I am going to have to run the drain pipe through the wall to the interior of the basement to tie into the drain system. Is this correct? Seems kind of strange to bring the water into my basement, but I don’t believe there is drain tile on the exterior. I was thinking of running pipe all the way to the sump pump pit if I do this. Anyone have experience with this? By the way, my basement is super dry, no water problems. I am adding a room down there.
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You need to drain it somewhere. If there is sufficient slope on the lot (which is doubtful, given your sump pump) you can simply run the drain down-slope. But running it in to the sump pump makes the most sense. Not sure if there might be code issues involved.
Or you can do what millions of builders do and pretend like no drain is needed there.
Why do you believe there is no drain tile on the exterior of your basement walls?
At least in these parts we have drain tiles sitting on top of the footing, outside of the basement wall & next to the footing on the interior below the slab & these two drain tile systems are tied together with bleeders 8' on centers across the top of the footings.
With the drain tiles on the exterior of the wall, we just hand dig a post hole from the bottom of our window wells down to the drain tiles & fill the hole with course stone
Hope this makes sence
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don't drain in.
Where you install the window, dig down to footing, and backfill with 3/4" stone. Water will weep down thru it and go where ever the rest of the exterior water is going.
Six will get you ten that there is an exterior perimeter drain there already
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OK, Thanks. I will dig!
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My experience is the same as Pauls. Typically, if there is an interior drain and sump, there will be an exterior drain that ties into the interior.