> If water pools against the house, it will get in, guaranteed. The design has to prevent any pools from forming.
I still have a somewhat wet basement which has a field stone foundation. But I used to have really bad problems because water would come down off a hill and run down my gravel driveway and eventually pour into my basement.
Tried various things including drainage work around the house but it pretty much just silted up with sandy soil. The thing that ultimately mostly fixed the problem is a neighbor in heavy construction put some 12" drainage pipes under my driveway to divert runoff to a big open field that doesn't flow down to my house.
I still get some water with heavy rain and saturated ground but it's manageable now.
Standing water can do extra damage in a cold snap. And at a time few would want to go outside and fix it. It’s one of the problems, for instance, with shallow roofs. Snow on the shingles melts, forms a dam, the water gets under the shingles. If it doesn’t get into the roof at this point, then night comes and it refreezes, slowly destroying the envelope until it does.
I still have a somewhat wet basement which has a field stone foundation. But I used to have really bad problems because water would come down off a hill and run down my gravel driveway and eventually pour into my basement.
Tried various things including drainage work around the house but it pretty much just silted up with sandy soil. The thing that ultimately mostly fixed the problem is a neighbor in heavy construction put some 12" drainage pipes under my driveway to divert runoff to a big open field that doesn't flow down to my house.
I still get some water with heavy rain and saturated ground but it's manageable now.