Concept

There are three reasons that “drainage to daylight” ought to be on your Must Have list when evaluating building sites.

• A dry basement
• Dry ground insulates better than wet ground
• No need for a sump pump, which saves electricity

Application

Drainage to daylight was on my list of must haves. I just couldn’t bear the risk of water in the basement or to know that BTUs were swimming away from the foundation any faster than they needed to. In the end, I did have to “elevate” my house 1 foot to get the drainage to daylight. This was in part due to the fact that we included a massive “solar battery” (three feet of compacted sand and concrete under the basement floor).

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