French drain

[bfry10]

I am new to this. I would like to know the difficulty factor for building a french drain and installing a sump pump to transfere water to the street. I live in lower SC and it stays wet here.
Thanks
Brian

[Shelly]

Well you dig a trench about 8 inches to a foot wide and deep, line it with a porous fabric (delux effort here) throw in some perforated pipe and join with fittings to a sump pit, cover with 3/4 gravel and viola you got yourself a french drain.

Dig a deeper pit and plop in a sump box - connect to the pipe and you got a french drain with a sump. No biggee.

[arkadid]

Hi I am new to this. I just bought a house and i am having a problem with water comming into my crawling space and i've been tolded that i need to install a freanch drain and I was wondering if i need to dig a trench with a slopp and what kind of an angle. Please help