I have discovered there is a lot of standing water at the base of my house footing in the front porch. If I remove the water, an hour later the water comes back as if I have a underground water well.
I was told by the builder’s plumber that it’s cause by the service trench they dug to run mains water to the house.
To all the resident engineering experts on H1, surely this is a serious problem to turn service trenches into sub surface channel drains to wreck your house footing. What can be done to fix this? Just pour concrete to encase the the service trench?