Mitigating with French Drain and Weep System Reflecting my ignorance here:
Wondering if Randy's solution of "Draintile technique # 3" in the document to which he refers readers (
https://fixradon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/RadonMitigationDraintile2014.pdf ) is (or might become)
the (or among the) water control technique, recognized as consistent with possible future radon mitigation techniques, recommended (or even code-specified) for installation in
new construction where it might reasonably be anticipated that water incursion has a fair potential to be a problem? (I live in such a house where I wish the builders
had done more to so anticipate.
:sad: )
My points in asking this are the following:
- By encouraging home-builders to preemptively follow technique #3 from the outset, such a thing could, in time, make mitigators' work, where it proves to be needed, so much less troublesome to carry out.
- Emphasis on this technique for water incursion control from the outset could also perhaps help establish it as an SOP for the water-control industry to follow should they be called to retrofit houses not so equipped.
- I know John could write a book, but maybe if there could be more steps made to get out in front of this issue in a cooperative way among the builders, the mitigators, and the water-proofers, maybe there wouldn't be the need for second volume 25 years from now. Is there any advantage in holding, say, a joint webinar to help those stakeholders hear one another and address this one issue? Let me know.