I'm not so sure. Many homes that are built with a septic system from ~25 years ago and back used a french drain septic system. Those don't channel the water away from anything other than the tank. They just let the water seep into the ground there in the yard. Some do use them to help channel water away from buildings and such but the way they are designed, most of the water just seeps into the ground in the trench just a couple feet below the surface. Not trying to argue though...I didn't mean to quote you but Nalt. A french drain usually channels the water away from a touchy area.
Very cool pics. I love the "father and son" sized ladders. Also good to see N8 doing some precision cutting. How does he hear the needed measurements with the earbuds in though? And that bottom pic looks much better on my home PC than it did on my phone when you texted it to me. Very nice...Got the drywall hung this weekend. It’s not pretty but nothing that a little (or lot of) mud can’t fix. Now the real fun begins.
French drains are primarily used to prevent ground and surface water from penetrating or damaging building foundations and as an alternative to open ditches or storm sewers for streets and highways. Alternatively, French drains may be used to distribute water, such as a septic drain field at the outlet of a typical septic tank sewage treatment system. French drains are also used behind retaining walls to relieve ground water pressure.
Very cool pics. I love the "father and son" sized ladders. Also good to see N8 doing some precision cutting. How does he hear the needed measurements with the earbuds in though? And that bottom pic looks much better on my home PC than it did on my phone when you texted it to me. Very nice...
Do you have a bathroom in the basement?Our basement foundation sits on top of a French drain. I don’t recall them running lines out from it either but I guess they could have taken it out to the pasture. We don’t have a sump or anything else to assist and have not had issues. Even when the pasture has flooded with 8’ of water we have been dry fortunately.
We just had to re-do the septic last summer and that sucked. We tore down a house re-built but the health dept let us keep the original one. In all it lasted 65 years!
Do you have a bathroom in the basement?
Mrs. Nalt cherishes the memories she has of going to work with her dad when she was growing up. She has said that in middle school she was one of the only kids that actually knew how to read a tape measure.Thanks, the kids have been a huge help. Good learning experience too. This is a different photo from last night too.
You purposely started this shelving project to divert our attention from the RV didn't you.
Indecision may or may not be my problem
Grrr
Where did you find this?I have found that if you want a natural grey/tan/blue tone like that... go much, much lighter. It'll look practically white in the paint can.
Where did you find this?