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All Downspouts MUST Discharge Water Away From The Foundation Wall
All downspouts MUST discharge water away from the foundation wall.  As they say, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
Anything else simply sets the house up for disaster over time.
This is the downspout on the front corner of the house.
This house is situated on a hill, with the front foundation wall completely buried.
This has been discharging against the foundation for some time.
Someone even put a plastic cap on the end, apparently to dress it up!
And a cute piece of slate to "divert" the water downward.
Cute...
Notice the hole being dug into the soil.  Somewhat hard to see, it is there!
Here is the corner beneath that fine downspout!
It had rained the night before this inspection. 
And not hard!
But, with about 800 square feet of roof surface draining down one downspout, and against the foundation wall, it will find its way in if it can.
And to get inside the house, water needs about one billionth of an inch of a crack.
In addition to coming into the house, this is what continued water pressure against a foundation will do.
That is a double, horizontal foundation crack.
That's a foundation's version of a ... more

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