I was down in the basement one day while it was raining, and watched a small piece of mortar fall out of the foundation onto the dirt floor, followed by a perfe

I was down in the basement one day while it was raining, and watched a small piece of mortar fall out of the foundation onto the dirt floor, followed by a perfect stream of water about an inch in diameter start pouring in. Then I learned about french drains. My dad grew up in an old farm house that had been a dorm for the school house next door at one point. After they had been living there a while, they jacked it up, dug the blocks out, poured a new foundation, and lowered the house back onto it. We looked at an old house, maybe from the mid-1600's or 1700's. Ship "stairs" that were almost a ladder. The corners of the rooms were probably six inches higher than the middle. It was amazing, super cool house. We passed, but eventually somebody fixed it up over the course of a year or two and flipped it.