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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you’re misinformed. Exterior drains are definitely still used/required.

Here’s Carroll County:
[url]https://www.carrollcountymd.gov/government/directory/public-works/permits-inspections/residential-projects/residential-code-compliance-guidelines/[/url]

Of course if you have an existing house you can just get bigger gutters and call it a day but exterior drains are the standard. [/quote]

And you are still an idiot.  Exterior drain tile was always required for NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION while both interior, exterior, sump pumps and battery back-up pumps are required in PG county.  As usual, your comments have NOTHING to do with the discussion about an older home, that already has an exterior drain-as they all do-and how to remedy the situation of water intrusion.  There is no Fing code in any county in MD, VA, or DC that requires a contractor doing water proofing to put in, or replace an exterior drain and hardly anyone does.  It's nearly all interior drains tied to sump pumps, permitted where required.  Permits are not even required for this type of work in MOCO or HOCO.[/quote]

The houses in my neighborhood are 100 years old and they definitely don’t all have exterior drains. And [b]people do excavate to add them [/b]if they want to finish the basement. [/quote]

Hardly ever.  Even 100-150 years ago, exterior footing drains were commonly used and building code in most places still hasn't changed much in that regard.  While houses may be built to last over 100 years, the drainage scheme often doesn't perform even half that long.  Today, excavating down to the footer to install a footing drain is rarely done, and not practical or even possible for many homes.  Do excavate along any wall of a home means removing anything that sits along that wall.  A/C units, landscaping, landscaping, concrete stoops, walkways, decks, etc.  Of course, you can't remove an addition, or even a sun porch. Then, you have to dig out as far as you dig deep so an 8' deep hole has to be 8' out from the house and then that dirt has to be piled beyond that hole.  You can only do that on a property with enough room and where it's safe to use an excavator which will tear up the lawn and possibly damage the roots of any trees it gets near.  Digging down to the footer is risky and not really a good idea.  The companies that do this work charge as much as $20,000 per wall and do not offer any kind of lifetime warranty against water intrusion.  In the end, they are just laying another drain pipe down in the mud.  But I'm sure you know all this.  Is there some reason you keep insisting this is a good, standard practice when it's not?  Again, I challenge you to show me even 3 highly rated basement waterproofing companies in the area who don't commonly do interior drains as their standard practice.[/quote]

These homes weren't to last more than 20 years as they are shot shacks[/quote]

Good answer![/quote]

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