What's the question, getting ready to put an addition on my house.
My house has a leaky basement on the one side, the side yard has a depression in it and won't let water run away from the foundation.
I'm thinking about digging a ditch along the foundation that's about 2 foot deep by 2 foot wide and runs towards the back yard and out a hillside (down a two or three percent grade). Along the foundation, lay 4mil plastic (on the bottom and up the sides), put in a few inches of gravel, and lay down one length of corrugated piping without perforations to run off the downspout water, and another length of corrugated pipe (next to it) with perforations to run off the ground water. Fill this over with pea gravel, and than lay landscaping fabric and soil over top.
I just wondered if this sounds okay? Like it will fix the problem?