With acreage the discharge can run far enough to matter, and often gravity does the whole job.
On a Kathleen property there is no storm drainage, so every inch of rain leaves through the soil and a lot of it passes right beside the house. A below-grade wall and footing sit in the path of that, taking water for much of the wet season.
The advantage out here is space for the discharge. On a town lot the hardest part of a drainage job is finding somewhere for the water to go that is genuinely far enough away. With acreage that constraint disappears, and where the land falls away gravity can carry the whole load.
So we look at the property as well as the basement. Interception uphill where the flow path calls for it, interior drain tile around the footing for what still arrives, and a long gravity discharge where the fall exists. A sump goes in only where the ground around the house is level.
Our basement french drains scope is the same on every Kathleen home, whatever the Houston County ground turns out to be doing.

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