Installing a Basement Sump

If you have a good solid floor in your basement then 99 per cent of the time you will find that water will be entering your basement through the "wall/floor" junction fillet. This for many reasons is the weakest point in an existing basement. The easiest way of ensuring that you are getting the water at that point is to incorporate a perimeter channel around all the earth retaining basement walls. The channel can be installed in a variety of different ways but in a existing basement

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