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What are French drains? What about painting our leaky basement?

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What are French drains? What about painting our leaky basement?

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A French drain is a big underground reservoir outside the house to collect water runoff and hold that moisture so it can gradually seep down rather than coming into one’s basement or house. French drains are usually dug 2 to 3 feet deep, but the depth is really based on the volume of potential run off to be caught and held during typical heavy rains. Selecting the best location(s) where the water is coming from is essential. French drains are filled with a lining of landscape weed barrier cloth or some other suitable material to keep adjacent soil from entering the reservoir along with coarse gravel or stone to provide open air spaces up to six inches below the surrounding soil grade line. The top of each underground pit is covered with six inches of topsoil so that the top of the French drain will thus match the adjacent land uses, which could be the lawn, flowerbed or landscaped area. French drains can be dug adjacent to wet basement walls or nearby to collect and hold gutter downspo

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