So I have a slight crack in my foundation, on the front side of the house. Roughly 3’ down from ground level. The road down to the culdasac is down hill, and then my front yard is a hill. All sloped to the front of my home. With a good rain, I get some water entering the basement through the crack. My question is, if I was to do some sort of DIY drainage system, could I simply go a foot or so down and run a drain to the right side of my house?( looking from the front.) or do I need to dig down 3’, the depth of the crack in the foundation wall and then run something out? I in the picture of the our house off realtor, it’s before we bought it but if you look closely there’s a sidewalk before the house, and right in that area water pools up terribly and that’s where it leaks in the house. Since then we have demoed the ramp but there is still a sidewalk there. So my plan would be to dig a drain of some sort in between the house and the sidewalk, and shoot it out to the right of the house to let the water run off into the wood. Just not sure about depth.
by codyleesmith51
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