A basement drain tile system is an effective waterproofing solution designed to drain excess water away from your home’s foundation and into an outside drain, such as weeping tile, French drains or perimeter drains. Also referred to as weeping tile or perimeter drains, these systems can be installed either inside or outside your home and provide effective basement and crawl space waterproofing as well as yard drainage solutions. Often the only viable option when experiencing mold growth, sagging walls, musty smells or water seepage into basement or crawl space this system could provide relief – give us a call and let us show you just what weeping tile can offer you!
Drain tile systems installed during new construction help eliminate basement or crawl space flooding problems by collecting water and diverting it away from your foundation footings. To achieve this goal, a trench must be dug alongside each foundation footing for placing perforated pipe and then covering them with washed gravel; all this should be placed at an angle so as to ensure water flows downhill rather than back towards your footings.
An exterior drain tile system works on the same principle. Contractors dig a trench around foundation footings before placing perforated drain pipes containing holes with washed gravel to form a slight slope that ensures water flows freely away from any backfill into the trench, rather than creating backfilled areas where it cannot exit easily. This allows water to find its own path into daylight exit points instead.
Older homes with waterproofing issues can retrofit an interior drain tile system to address them, creating an interior drain tile system by cutting a channel into the basement floor slab and installing perforated pipe beneath concrete, which then directs collected water directly to a sump pit where pumps will remove it from your home.
Combining waterproofing products and drain tile systems may be enough to protect your home from serious foundation damage, since basement drain tiles work to alleviate hydrostatic pressure by giving water another path instead of pushing against foundation walls until they crumble. Horizontal or zig-zag cracks in foundation walls could indicate that hydrostatic pressure is building and that your basement or crawl space could collapse soon if no action are taken to relieve it.
Though both interior and exterior drain tile systems can be used to waterproof a home, exterior drain tile systems tend to be the more cost effective option. Installing an interior system requires costly excavation of flooring and furnishings in your basement which often necessitates days of jackhammering to complete.
Drain tile systems can be an extremely effective means of keeping moisture out of your basement or crawl space and preventing mold and musty odors, as well as structural damage. Unfortunately, both types are complex to install and should only be completed by professionals such as Reliable Basement. They will assess your situation, recommend an optimal solution and offer thorough installation service to guarantee a dry basement for years.