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No drain in the center !? Remember this is the South, and many building codes are much more lenient here than up North. We didn't build this house, and only moved in this past winter. So far so well, and the slope of the land around the house was well done, and I don't anticipate any problems with water intrusion. My parents had a basement in a house they had built in upstate NY in the mid '50s, and it had a drain it that still couldn't keep up with the all-of-sudden snow melt in the Spring which would cause water to literally cascade down the hill behind our house and fill up the basement's casement window-wells to the point that water would come thru them and down the wall and flood the basement. It took two winters of that nonsense for us before they decided to regrade the backyard, and literally use explosives to blast out rock in order for us to recontour the entire hill behind us. Then we installed French drains around the perimeter of the house and created a drainage run out to the street. Never had those problems again. Many basements today are designed with a low spot near a doorway in lieu of a drain, or a drain located in a far corner, rather in the center. Crawl space openings must have a built in gravel filled drainage "pit" in a corner, typically located near an access area - due to that being the point closest to the ground level outside the crawl space. BILL
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