landscaping specialist / water management help needed

so i need some advice. heres the deal my property sits right next to my neighbors driveway on the south side of the house . well my neighbors driveway is dirt and has many dips etc that allow water to sit and saturate the surrounding ground instead of draining away. My south wall in my basement is leaking which sucks and im fairly sure its because of this water not draining away.


my proposed solution is adding a french drain/ tile on my side of the property line and running it the length of the house and emptying into a drainage field or rain barrel in the back yard . Does anyone see any issues with this or will this idea not help with the basement moisture at all?

Do you have clean gutters on the south side where it's leaking? When my basement was getting moisture in there, my gutters were overflowing and flooding the basement.

As far as I can tell I do good water flow all corners of the house have an gutters. And all are going out away from the house. I wish I would have taken a picture of the standing water my neighbors driveway had. They had a pool toy floating on it

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I would do the drain idea, but also take a look at your walls in your basement for cracks. If you find cracks get a crack chaser blade and fix the cracks with some patching. A guy up the street from me had a similar problem where the left side of his yard became a swamp when it rained. He dug a graded trench to the sewer and its been much better and much less swampy. Make sure you make the trench graded, although im pretty sure you already know that.

Good to hear someone had good results with my plan. I'm going to do this tommorow and yes five percent is what they calk for

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I had a leaky basement. Installed a french drain...did nothing. I ended up having a B-dry system put in. Big bucks, but guaranteed for life. It all depends on how bad your situation is. I sure wish I had the money back from the french drain.

Jeremy

Did you not do the french drain yourself? Mine is going to cost less than a hundred bucks total.
I was told if the water was coming through the wall its a surface water problem, if its coming through the floor its a water table type problem where a sump pump is needed.

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I did a few hundred feet (house is ~90 feet wide), under sidewalks, tied my gutters into it, and have it exiting deep in the back yard. No, I wasn't about to dig ~200 linear feet at 2-3 feet down. :p

That's an oversimplified explanation, and not a rule. Mine came through the walls, and at the cold joint, due to poor waterproofing and clay earth. I got a LOT of water in my basement. If you're just getting a little intrusion, or moisture, you can probably get away with just a french drain. What I have now is a french drain on the exterior, and a french drain underneath the slab in the interior. No pumps, gravity fed, can never fail.

Jeremy

An interior French drain was next on this list if the exterior one does not work, I'm hoping it does work. I only have sixty foot bad to dig to get it at my property line. So in hoping me and my hired high school laborer can do it in a day times

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About four hours and we were done my highschoolrt worked his butt off

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That's not how your downspout is normally, is it? Way too high off the ground, and you need a splash block at a minimum.

Were you getting water all along that wall? Curious on why you made the drain so far away from the foundation.

Jeremy

Just to add, the way my basement is setup, and my parents basement is setup, is to have a drain along the interior walls of the basement. These little drains lead to a sump pump. Both of our basements haven't had any issues with water. You can also throw a de-humidifier down there to suck the moisture out of the walls.

I also think they sell a coating for the walls that will block out any water from seeping through the cinder blocks.

Edit: Additionally, we both have a downward slope heading off the outside wall to keep water away. My realtor also mentioned that having any types of plantation near the foundation draws water and holds water near the house, which is not a good thing.

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no the gutter had not been put back on when the picture had been taken, it comes back out forward because as you can see thats my neighbors driveway,m picture is kinda deceiving but it was only about a foot width fro the foundation at most points where it was next to the house then past the house we took advantage of the natural down slope in the back yard.

I also have a seventy pint dehumidifier running down their and a smaller thirty pint in a small room that's away from air flow