What type of professional an I looking for in this situation??

[Ted Bear]

County.


Then call an excavator who can build you a French drain and/or a dry well. Once you have a solution then decide how much of the bill the builder/developer is going to pay. Like ALL of it.

[johnd393]

I wonder how the other homes discharge their ground water?

[tickyul]

HVAC, LOL, I doubt it.

I mean, I know nothing about plumbing, HVAC and construction..........but that tale of that amount of water coming from the HVAC sounds like a **** & bull story.

[Izzie1213]

You know he is lying to you because no way the HVAC discharge would cause that much water. Why would have be discharging during freezing weather and go across neighbors drive. Be sure to out all your complaints in writing with a return receipt so you have record of complaints and requests to fix. Don't do any changes to grading in your own, they will blame you for problems. Happened to someone I know. What about a dry well system?

[greglovesoldtrucks]

I have seen this OP happen since I started working in home construction way back in 1970, on way too MANY homes. Just about every municipality will have stringent building codes and enforcement for home building. IE: Floor joist spacing, framing member integrity, header spans checked etc, to be sure the house will be structurally sound for its future owners.

Yet, the most damaging aspect of the house being built for longevity and even safety from damage or mold goes on with little regard = the way the lot's water drainage will work to prevent water penetration in to the homes foundation.

Just like in my present home in the pics attached, I have seen so MANY homes, where that if the builder had just brought the homes foundation up out of the ground, just 8" higher (just one more run of cement block ) then doing so, would have allowed the homes grade around it to be pitched AWAY from the house. (while maybe even allowing swales to be cut at times)

Here is two pics of our back yard during a heavy rain that I took after just one week of us, buying and moving in to our present 1960 model home. I have fixed all the gutter downspout issues, but I cannot bring our yard's soil up above our homes foundation sill plate to "pitch" the water away from it better.

Our home just sits too low on its lot. So now due to a rising water table in our crawlspace, I have two sump pumps in it now... with a 3rd back up sump pump.

So we pulled out our homes sellers disclosure to review it again, just to be sure we had not missed the "drainage" question on it before we had put our offer in. Sure enough, we found the question on the SD. And it read, " Does your home's foundation/property have any drainage issues ?

The couple that we bought our home from, had checked the "NO" box to the question. Now imagine that ?

[cp102]

We have an interior courtyard that when it rains will fill up quickly there is a sump pump in the center and it takes water under the house out to the other side,.. Before we put in a french drain water would accumulate making the area really soggy wet. Since we added a french drain we no longer have that problem.