Addressing water from the outside 

Grading to prevent intrusion is always better than remediation after intrusion. IMHO great work as always.

When they put the drain pipe on my gutter, I asked the to put a extra T fitting right at the end of the house, a plug was installed on the straight through end, this way, if the pipe up to the down spouts can be easily cleaned if ever needed. But if you install the micro mesh stainless steel gutter guards, they will stay clean. They also installed popup valves to keep all the frogs, snakes, lizards and whatever else out of the end of that pipe. 5 years later, everything looks great, the mesh kept all leaves, straw grit out of the gutter.

Aside from making happy customers, the thing I like best about your channel is the way you respond to your crew - always polite and considering their input. Better still when you tell Ronald "whatever you think is best". Great job!

Watching these professionals is fascinating! Experts at what they do…efficient, accurate and dedicated.

The sense of happiness I got when this notified me it was posted.

Sean, have you ever just sat down and thought about the countless people that your videos have helped. And how much money you’ve likely saved them ?? I enjoy every video you put out, and gain a better understanding of how things work, just by the way you explain everything. Keep up the great work Sean. You truly are one of a kind.!! Jason from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin..

Another brilliant video. Keeping water away from the foundation is the best way.

Absolutely keep water away from the foundation! Before I got smart and started watching your channel I had an old duplex in Baltimore with full basement that flooded frequently. I was sold an interior french drain (massive amount of work breaking the concrete and hauling it upstairs to the outside) and although it solved my problem, my neighbor on the other side of the duplex shared wall, had a major flood in their basement. Nightmare.

Great job! It feels like the French drain guys wanted to do a cash grab. Making sure the water isn’t there in the first place is the only way to do this.

Always better to keep the water away from the outside. Gravity is your friend... Another great Job Shawn!

Thank you for showing property topography at the beginning. I agree with keeping the flow of water away from the foundation.

Your solutions are always spot on!! I would not trust anyone else!!

I just wanted to say thank you Shawn!! I’ve studied your videos for awhile now and just installed my own system. A big channel drain and a catch basin all into PVC sent to the end of the driveway. Just waiting on the concrete guys to finish up their part

I flashed back to the day when your truck fell through an old septic the second you backed up onto the lot. Nice outcome here👍.

Great work. 👍 I’ve learnt from you it’s always best to take the water away as a priority instead of hoping a pump and/or french drain to do anything. I had a similar issue with land sloping towards the home slightly and water pooling up against the foundation in heavy rain. I cleared the entire length of the wall, concreted and put a grate to take the water away. I couldn’t put dirt up against the wall due to the weep holes and the possibility of dampness.

Good one, He knew ahead of time & thats great progress...The last clip showing that Huge Dry-line was super...

Great job with this. When you were talking about the length of the gutter and the need for another downspout, I said the new one should be here and the next thing you said was the need to add a downspout exactly when I pointed to on the screen. You are a great teacher. I agree that it is better to get the water away from the. foundation on the surface rather than dealing with it in the ground. The follow up video from property management showed how dry the dirt behind the roof line/gutters was!

You can’t post these fast enough for me but I know your work takes time and editing ! Thanks

Thanks for another great video Shawn! Seems like everyone wants to treat the symptom, you treat the disease.

You really are the 'Water Whisperer', Shawn!😁😎👍

Thanks again for being an inspiration and for sharing your knowledge so freely ! -- It's great to watch what you and your crews do.

I looked at several houses before buying my home now and noticed basement water issues corrected by letting the water in and pumping out. I never understood that other than cost of digging around the whole foundation. I am with your solution 100%. If you keep the water from ever getting in, that is the way to go. Thanks for the videos!

Gutter clean outs would be a nice addition just few more fittings.

Very interesting! I really enjoy watching these videos and the way you think about solving the problems.

A awesome work shawn, alway like your work and video, i am a fan of your channel for few years now . keep up the good work. love your professionalism and your freindlyness attittude. I am in the IT industry and but i am fascinated by your work and attention for details. You nver never desappointed your fan etc. A hello fron the UK

Working on an older farm house for the in-laws... horrible basement wall pour in the 60's... varying thickness and curved / bowing in places... looks stable but they had moisture / water on floor in unfinished basement... a lot of things led to that... 3 basement windows with bottom of sills right at their grade... and ground on 3 sides of house all sloping to it... argh... i immediately went to attaching window wells half submerged, dug another 4" lower and put in rocks... then i was able to grade the ground putting in about 10" of fill to within 1" of the top of the window wells... still have to do a bit of a final nice "grade" on it but i'm happy - i was able to slope and channel the water away from the house and not into it... That along with opeing up the air intake on the furnace so now there are intakes to the basement now... there wasn't any... i gather that was common in old houses, the intakes were only upstairs... Basement is no longer damp and i haven't seen any water / wet spots this last few months.

This job is finished satisfactory. Now, on to the next one. Cheers.

As always doing an excellent job,

Excellent solution!

Pumps fail, gravity doesn’t! Thanks for the insight.

You & Mr. Ronald make a pretty good team. I'm sure the job goes a lot smoother when he's on site.

I agree with your method. It seems to resolve the issue at hand. Great video.

Another good one Sean. I have 1 suggestion: when you say the town or city you are in that day, include the state. You've got enough viewers now (and I can tell from the comments) that some folks might not know. Keep up the great vids, I always learn something from them. Thanks for that!!

Great upload as always

That turned out all right. Stopped the water problems up here where I am. We got to have sump pumps in the basement. Mine finally shut off. It ran for about a month straight with all the rain we had and the thaw and it stopped now. But yeah that's a good way to do it. No, you don't want to be cutting the floor and adding it after the fact getting it from the outside. It's a way to go. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

I have a 50x100 building with seamless gutters on the long sides. They are 102 feet long end to end. They are a bit undersized for the amount of roof, but they work just fine. The amount of water that comes off that roof is pretty incredible.

Good stuff

Another successful job.......of course

19:07 pro move Great job 🙂

My college English professor always said, "Keep It Simple Stupid," when writing/story telling Your solution was the most basic & the most effective vs going in the basement & atracking the problem there.

To tackle it from the outside makes much more sense then spenidng the time and money to cut a channel, in the slab. Then install a sump pump which can fail, they all do. Solved the problem for less dollars, provided a nice bed for bushes and a daylight for the outfall.

Great video...do enjoy them. Your gutter guys just reinforce the solution is sometimes more than pipe and dirt. Surprising how often they are overlooked. BTW...was wondering if you get the name of the gutter sealant your guys use, especially the end caps. Had terrible luck with sealants around here.

I knew somebody who had dryer vents that where made from heat resistant PVC like a p-trap it came out of ground next to the house and went up about two feet and then made a round 90° and went down about a foot and there was a flapper inside that would open when the dryer was on and close when it was off to keep critters out.

I saw the Dry Line on the foundation grading after the rain !

12:00 always amazes me how the roll turns into a gutter with no scratches.

I love this strategy, however there are two ways water gets into your basement, from rain and poor grading or hydrostatic pressure coming up from the ground beneath the slab. How the water comes is should determine the strategy, I had hydrostatic pressure forcing water in from underneath the slab of my foundation so I was forced to put in a sump pump.

Hey, how many episodes of Mike Holmes, did they solve it from outside whenever possible... inside was only when outside was not an option.

Keeping water out of the dwelling is always the way to go, pumping it out even if it was contained in a controlled manner it’s done damage.

The only time you should feench drain inside the basement is when the water table is higher than the basement slab. Getting the problem water away from the foundation keeps erosion, settling, and cracking from happening.

why the backfill above the foundation. It is get the water through the brick and get termite get inside the house

ok, you are professional and definitely know what you're doing but this is the second video I have seen where the dirt is compacted next to the foundation , higher than the foundation. I was always told that the soil should preferably be 6" below top of foundation and definitely not covering brick. Is this wrong?

Ronald is a beast. I pray to God I have the energy he has at that age 💪💪🤘💪💪🤘🤘💪💪

Great work, my question since you raised the grade in the front and now dirt is riding over the brick veneer, isnt that a cause for concern from critters, ants, and termites to possibly get in and reach the wood behind the brick veneer? Im guessing as long as the tuckpointing was in great condition than no problem ?

The first time I saw a gutter machine.,when the guy pulled 25 foot gutter out of a 10 foot truck bed I almost drove into a parked car.

Shawn, I need to add some soil along the front of my house. Do you feel it's necessary to dig down along the entirety of the front and roll on the black water repellant/sealant on the brick?

I wish you worked in my state. I have a backyard flooding due to previous owner who put a sloppy useless French drain with that corrugated garbage, plus catching the downspouts too 😡. It would make a good video. Oh well

Really? All you had to do is to put in a footer drain with EX flow or gravel perforated pipe, attach existing downspouts, add a few catch basins and exit to daylight using non perforated pipe. Really simple job you have made into a huge production.

Do you always use straight pvc pipe or the foam core pvc pipe. Would foam core work just as well. Just wondering which one to use in my little project after watching your videos. 😁

Looked like a good job. Pumping water out is not a solution. Solution is always achieved from the outside and in this case a relatively inexpensive fix . Hope you got straw down before the rain to prevent dirt stains on the brick and windows. Good job

Maybe you should start bringing the Trencher on every job involving 4+" PVC pipework... Just in case you end up needing to bury one because you figured out a better path mid-job like this one...

prevention is always better than cure

Shaun, would it help if you put plastic up along wall and lay flat on garden bed before you pile your dirt up against basement wall.. curious...

I like what you do but I believe how you’re putting soil against the foundation is probably breaking a lot of gold codes. I agree with catching the water in a downspouts, but I will say I believe you could grade the landscaping with less slope up against the house with a little more work done into the yard.

Does the house have a damp proof course? Won't the mounded soil bridge it?

Don't the stormwater pipes come with a socket at one end? Do you need to use joiners when connecting lengths?

Is there also a membrane that you can put on the outside side of the house before you put the dirt to keep the basement dry?,

With as much fall as there was in the back, would it been possible to trench more and bury that pipe in the front?

German word for have not drank too much yet: farfrompuken

*Im asking because I dont know not crtitizing* I was told not to have dirt (mulch, etc) covering brick due to the weep/breathing holes. Is that just a Texas thing?

Keeping it away. I'm trying to convince my niece that she needs to regrade her back yard before all this water ruins her property. I can't even find where to get clay soil to build up berms along the side yard to keep the neighbor's overflowing gutters from flooding the side yard.

Where did the dryer vent end up coming out? (no vent around corner to right side)

Why did you need to replace gutters? Thanks!

When you put dirt against a wall does it ever cause damp in that wall?

Eliminating water that is already inside should be the last line of defense. Prevention is the best resolution.

What’s your intake on French drain man RU-vid channel and their work? Noticed you guys do things completely different

One of these day i will fix my leaking basement. I think there is a high water table. I have had water running in my basement for several weeks now. I need to dig up the foundation, retuckpoint the brick, and lay some drain tile.

Away from foundations 💯

That was such a pretty house. I don’t believe in interior drainage systems. Water should be managed outside.

If they replace those basement tiles hopefully they'll check them for asbestos

How are you able to compact earth up against the house like you do. Here in England we have a damp proof course which has to be 150mm above ground with NOTHING touching it or you'll get damp 🇬🇧

Will there be issue with the dirt setting up against the brick? Shouldn't the dirt only go to the top of the concrete foundation?

Is the footer CBS underground? Could have done overkill, spent double and dug that down & sealed it + backfill with drainage rocks and put decorative landscape rock on top layer for maintenance free assurance accumulation of groundwater that will never breach again 😂😂😂🎉

In Australia, you would be a world of pain.... Building up the level of the ground above the level of the dampcourse and above the level of the floor in the house.... Letting moisture ingress up through the exterior wall of the house and radiate into the internal structure of the house and walls.... Causing damp and then mould. And installing guttering without a natural level fall to the downpipes.... WTF!!!

Now hw just has to keep the gutters clean!

LOL!!! Is there a guarantee in writing it won't leak for 10 - 20 years? 1 or 3 rains hardly establishes a dry basement from this point forward.

Makes me mad that where I live in Los Angeles this is a 40k job. If you can get someone.

took a while, but a simple solution.

Can you really pack earth up straight up against the bricks like that?

I’ve always wondered,is there a story about your hat?

Did you buy out Harvey ?

Where is Allpro?

Why do you use such "High-risers" of the PVC pipe instead of longer gutter drain pipes (especially when new gutters are being installed at the same time) when it isn't necessary for flow? IT IS SO UGLY!!!

Does your subcontractor ever use 5” gutters? I think that downspout by the front door is not very attractive. Th Shawn.

I will have to 100% disagree with the owner on the dryer vent movement! That should be just a small pipe straight up in that location. If that gets clogged with lint … and is not a matter of “if” is when…. That will be very hard to clean!

Question for anyone able to answer.. So my house/backyard is essentially on wet/swamplands, in a low lying area it tends to gather a large amount of water in a small area of the backyard, especially recently with all the rain we got the past month.. So to mitigate it ive been using a pump to transfer it to another area, come to find out water is actually flowing from the ground which then pools up in that spot. How would i resolve that, aside from filling it in with dirt (which i would if i knew where to get cheap dirt from)? I took a video of what its doing if anyones interested in it.

Rocks are better than organic matter and additionally act as another channel for water

I guess I should have said 6” gutters.

Those railroad ties all need changed the one he was noticing out is rotten

Hello You forgot to put rip rap rock at the end of the pipe.

Man the best part was left out. Im sure it sucks going out in the rain and getting footage but man thats what sets your videos apart from all the rest. Always a good video but step it back up man. If you get home iwner footage that doesnt have rain include both. Today you get a pass. ✌️👍🤙