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BEFORE & AFTER -

HOUSE PLANS - FOUNDATION DRAINAGE SCHEDULE

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BEFORE

Foundation drainage most often is not a toughie; most house plans do not need a foundation drainage schedule.  But once in a while, you just have to do it.  And if you get it wrong, if you just don't pay attention to it at all, you can get squeezed out by too much water in too little pipe - sort of like these two fellows - it'll work, maybe, but it can be definitely be done better than "whatever."

AFTER

In this house plan set design, Before The Architect developed a need for a more complex than usual foundation drainage setup.  Enclosed crawlspace, extensive exterior concrete decking, and the house itself - each had to work on its own and, progressively from crawlspace to house foundation each had to pick up the other guy's drainage load.  At issue -

This was the way the Before The Architect house plan set designer handled it illustratively (and somewhat cryptically  - the cryptics are the message, though . . . the message is you do what you have to in order to convey serious interests to contractors and others and house plan set schedules are one fine way to do the conveyance):

  AFTER, HOUSE PLAN DETAIL - FOUNDATION DRAINAGE SCHEDULE, in PDF

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