Plus, anything around the house needs to be removed ... choose interior systems instead of exterior. The water collected in a French drain pipe needs to discharge somewhere.

A French drain foundation system consists of perforated underground pipes wrapped in landscape fabric and surrounded by gravel, buried in a trench encircling the house foundation’s exterior.

I did an in-person inspection recently. A man purchased a 50-year-old home next to a ski resort. He and his family are avid ...