Wyatt Homes

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Note the following job-site pic of Form-A-Drain installed:

We first set up the product and use it as a form for pouring our concrete footings. Later, we completely cover the forms with 1″ clean gravel. This serves the purpose of promoting water movement into the Form-A-Drain system (the water enters the drain system via the slots you can see in the above photo). We then cover the form and gravel with filter fabric which aids in filtering sediments out of incoming water to prevent the drainage system from being clogged. Finally we cover the fabric with another layer of gravel which is then covered by dirt as we backfill around the foundation. Later, we dig a trench away from the footing and attach a pipe to the drain system that runs to daylight to drain water away.

The advantage of this system to you, the homeowner, is that you end up with a nearly perfect drain system. The conventional way of draining water away from your foundation walls is to lay black, perforated, flexible pipe around the foundation and then covering it with gravel and some sort of filter. The drawback to this is that it’s nearly impossible to create a level drainage plane around the footing with the cumbersome drain pipe. Additionally, many contractor’s put the drain pipe on top of the footing. While this does allow a more consistent level all around the foundation, that moves the drain plane up to the same height as the concrete slab inside the basement, leading to potential problems.