Window Wells
Positive drainage that carries water away from your foundation wall.
Residential
Window Well Drainage
Window wells are designed to be below grade, which creates a vulnerability to flooding from trough spillover, driving rain or snow build-up against the home. Once window wells flood, the water has nowhere else to go – except into your basement!
A drain installed inside your window well will provide the positive drainage required to carry water away from your foundation wall.
Our Window Well Drain Process
- Remove the window well form.
- Locate the primary horizontal weeping tile system by manually digging to the footing.
- Make a 4″ T connection onto the primary horizontal weeping tile system.
- Run a 4″ diameter piece of weeping tile vertically up the wall to the bottom of the windowsill.
- Cover all weeping tile at the footing level with 1′ of ¾″ gravel.
- Backfill, leaving the dirt 1′ lower than the bottom of the windowsill.
- Refasten the window well form back onto the foundation wall.
- To stabilize the new drain, fill the inside of the window well 1′ deep with ¾″ gravel.
The new drain must be completely surrounded with gravel. The continuous holes in the weeping tile provide positive drainage. We backfill and compact dirt around the outside of the window well to prevent water build-up inside the window well.
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