AsktheBuilder.com News - December 19, 2018
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This is going to be a pictorial newsletter as I'm up in Bar Harbor right now getting ready for my third day of taping hours of video footage of the framing of my daughter and son-in-law's new home. I'm also taking hundreds of high-resolution photos.
Over the next few months you're going to be treated to some tasty construction eye candy, that's for sure.
The last issue I shared a photo of the foundation and you may have been one who wondered why the house only sports a crawlspace instead of a full basement.
There are two reasons:
- ledge
- not enough fall across the lot to support foundation drain tile that would daylight
If you blast a hole in solid granite for a full basement and you can't have a trench extend to daylight where ground water would flow on its way to the ocean, then in short order you end up with a covered swimming pool instead of a bone-dry basement that would be the pride of the Atacama Desert.
If this describes your home - one that doesn't have its drain tile pop out of the ground allowing water to flow by gravity - then you must have a sump pump that does its best to keep your basement dry.
CLICK HERE NOW to get a feel for the best way to install drain tile in your home.
I loath sump pumps for any number of reasons - primarily they fail when you most need them. Sump pumps with the most capacity need electricity to operate and electricity can be in short supply during horrible storms that produce vast quantities of rainwater that enter the sump.
Once your electricity goes out, your basement starts to fill with water. Too bad so sad. All that pain could be avoided by purchasing a lot that allows you to have a drain tile that extends to daylight.
Rest assured that I'll be writing many new columns about what you see in the following photos.
I've already started a MASSIVE audio series featuring SHORT six-to-seven minute episodes about each step of the process. CLICK HERE to listen to these short episodes.
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