What depth must be drainage around the house? Check spring water.

When I did the drainage around the house, I am well represented how it will work and what functions to perform.

The only question I had:

How deep you need to dig drainage pipe?

Doubt, as always on a heap of opinionsBuyout found on the Internet. I have seen examples where the drainage is placed at the very foot of the basement, seen below, and someone who does very deeply.

But choosing the depth, I think you need to think about what you want?

Protect the foundation from getting wet, dry, or save all the ground under the foundation.

But it must be borne in mind on what principle drainage work you are willing to: Autonomous or volatile?

For all these reasons, I made my choice.

As my foundation, It is entirely on the surface, to do the drainage at the very foot - this means on the ground :)..

I have seen examples of laying pipe at the base, in much of deep foundations(About a meter), so how to make deeper - it is somehow too.

And in this case protects the drainage directly to the foundation.

For his same foundation

I represented the drainage problem draining the entire cushion underneath. Water drainage is necessary not only to prevent frost heave, but also to prevent erosion of the soil under the house.

However, I originally wanted to do the whole system independent of electricity, which means that it was necessary to take into account the depth of the drainage ditch on the road.

So, the solution of the main question, drainage depth, just emerged from all these factors.

Ie to keep the water by gravity from the left portion, it was necessary to do the calculation to the endNamely from the ditch for land where everything should go.

With all slopes, drainage around the house turned on zlubine 0.5 meters, just at the base of the foundation pad. A drain all below, I just do not see the point.

Especially because the problem of their drainage performs only in the spring.

In the summer, when I was doing it, and in the fall I could not see the water in the manholes, ie during this period and are afraid of nothing.

But in the spring, I saw all his favor.

Most importantly, given the fact that winter was very snowyAnd water from melting snow are now very much, the groundwater level rose to the limitsAnd the water from the site is where to go.

Most importantly, what I experienced. There was a time a couple of days, when the output of the drain pipe entirely immersed in waterBut then the level of sleep and it became clear as water, brook, leaves the site.

So the main function, for the protection of the foundation base of waterloggingMy drainage performs.