On Apr 5, 2:17 pm, (Malcolm Hoar) wrote:
In article . com, wrote:
My house sits on a slope and the back right corner of my house is
about 3 ft lower then front left of my house. When we have heavy
rains, I will get water standing at the foundation in the back right
corner. The water will drain out within a day. I had the county come
out and look at it and they said that as long as the water is not
standing it was not a problem. My question is, could I install a
small drain (2" pvc pipe punch through the block and brick) through
the foundation to speed up the drainage of the water? I have diverted
all the gutters to get the water away from the house.

It the water is appearing regularly (more than a handful of times
per year) I would look for additional measures to prevent the
initial accumulation, if at all practical. You've done the obvious
thing by diverting the gutter run off. Maybe you need to take
another look at the grading?

Regardless of frequency, it would be prudent to install that
additional drain to get the water out from the crawl space
more rapidly.

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It only happens when we have more then an inch or two of rain in a
short period of time . I doubt it happens more then 5 or 6 times a
year. Thanks for the quick response. Any recommendation on how large
of a diameter of pipe I should use?