French Drain Question

[john bubber]

Jeff,

You wrote,
...."had 12 inches of water in the crawl during a wet season....and it was
trapped because the exterior walls were so well sealed".
Thats what you said.

And i replied the fact the exterior walls were sealed has nothing to do with
this 12" or if it was 100" of water being TRAPPED in a crawl. Zero.
YOU said/implied the water was TRAPPED due to the exterior walls being
'so well sealed'. J krsitams man.

Don`t give 2 1/2 craps about what some builders 'think/assume'.....
on THIS subject,they`ve proven time and again they don`t understand
what they NEED to understand about waterproofing/backfilling etc.

Thats right,some ONLY need a concrete FLOOR!
Take away a BASEMENT concrete FLOOR and you`d SEE the same
puddling/water problems/water vapor as in MANY crawls,yes indeedy sir.

Yeah Jeff concrete is porous....very good. Been through this SAME blcchtt
with other builders,a few finally wake up,not many though.

What will you very often see 'IF' most basements did NOT have a concrete floor?
Whats going to be UNDER most basement concrete floors after-during
a decent rain?

WATER.

The fact there will be some water under MANY basement floors doesn`t
mean there is this-supposed-assumed high water table blcchttt,no!