{"id":73,"date":"2010-03-26T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T23:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-06-13T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:53:24","slug":"5-steps-to-a-dry-basement-by-ronald-k-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;5 Steps to a Dry Basement&#8221; by Ronald K. Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gist of this gem is that most wet basement problems are surface-water problems. In other words, fix your gutters, punks. With respect to foundation drainage systems, Appendix B helpfully quotes part of the International Code Council&#8217;s International Residential Code.<\/p>\n<p>R405.1 Foundation Drainage specifies gravel or crushed stone drain at least 1 foot beyond the footing and 6 inches above the top of the footing with a filter membrane. Drain tile to be on at least 2 inches of rock and covered with at least 6 inches of rock.<\/p>\n<p>R405.2.3 Drainage system specifies a sump at least 24 inches in diameter or 20 inches square, at least 24 inches below the bottom of the basement floor.<\/p>\n<p>R406.2 Concrete and masonry foundation waterproofing specifies from top of footing to grade (1) 2-ply hot mopped felt, (2) 55-pound rolled roofing, (3) 6-mil PVC, (4) 6-mil polyethylene or (5) 40-mil polymer-modified asphalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gist of this gem is that most wet basement problems are surface-water problems. In other words, fix your gutters, punks. With respect to foundation drainage systems, Appendix B helpfully quotes part of the International Code Council&#8217;s International Residential Code. R405.1 Foundation Drainage specifies gravel or crushed stone drain at least 1 foot beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alentrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}