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QUESTION: My basement has much water eoaung up tram below only after a hard rain, therefore it must be surface water. Would you fawtall drain tiles inside or out, and how?
-A. Niagara Falls, N. Y.
ANSWER: While you may be right about «Wa being surface water, it is obvious, also that your foundation is undermined. Water snust pass under the footing to come up inside. 2£?*r*£oc«> unless drain tiles are located out* aide the footing, there is always the donga* your foundation can be completely undVcolltpie.
Fill your drainaii outside—and below the footing.
QUESTION: The interior of my twnt u v,b*d 7i5f*i®h5r bo*rd poaels- Every Joint hoe cracked its full length. The Joints Mem to have^been made with a tape and putty or paste. This may have cracked due to -irrfltog and shrinkage due. to moisture ^rr—r la
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