Every time I think about filling this hole with concrete, I think about weepholes in a brick wall and wonder if it serves a purpose.
This is outside a basement garage that was closed in and finished. Right underneath the downspout is a sump and if you look close you can see a curved line in the concrete where they dug it up to put the sump in. The sump pump is inside what looks like a rectangular clay chimney tile and there are small rocks (gravel) under and all around it. At the far right end of the brick wall there is a ragged hole in the concrete at the corner of the new concrete pour. The rocks are less than an inch down in the hole. The concrete where the hole is appears in the photo like it may be lower than the "apron" that's under the siding, but that's an illusion; they're level.
I keep a large flat rock over the hole to keep rain out of it but if we get a lot of rain for days at a time, when I move the rock I can see there's water in the hole. I assume it's groundwater that's risen. I checked again a while after taking this photo and the water was gone. Yay for sump pumps!
Here's my quandary: Sometimes, when the hole is full of water, as it is in the photo, if I sop the water out of the hole, I can see it run back into the hole and it appears to be coming from the house! That's why I've been reluctant to fill the hole with concrete; I don't know if it's serving a purpose. Did somebody at some point make that hole so that water coming back from the house would have someplace to go? Is the water running down from inside the siding, or from inside the house itself?
Any ideas?
Thanks
This is outside a basement garage that was closed in and finished. Right underneath the downspout is a sump and if you look close you can see a curved line in the concrete where they dug it up to put the sump in. The sump pump is inside what looks like a rectangular clay chimney tile and there are small rocks (gravel) under and all around it. At the far right end of the brick wall there is a ragged hole in the concrete at the corner of the new concrete pour. The rocks are less than an inch down in the hole. The concrete where the hole is appears in the photo like it may be lower than the "apron" that's under the siding, but that's an illusion; they're level.
I keep a large flat rock over the hole to keep rain out of it but if we get a lot of rain for days at a time, when I move the rock I can see there's water in the hole. I assume it's groundwater that's risen. I checked again a while after taking this photo and the water was gone. Yay for sump pumps!
Here's my quandary: Sometimes, when the hole is full of water, as it is in the photo, if I sop the water out of the hole, I can see it run back into the hole and it appears to be coming from the house! That's why I've been reluctant to fill the hole with concrete; I don't know if it's serving a purpose. Did somebody at some point make that hole so that water coming back from the house would have someplace to go? Is the water running down from inside the siding, or from inside the house itself?
Any ideas?
Thanks