Recently we purchased a house that has both a finished basement and two unfinished crawl spaces. There is a drain that leads to a sump pump around the main basement, but nothing in the crawl spaces. In the last month we have experienced quite a bit of rain and both of my crawl spaces have had water - water that I fear if I had not wet vac'd on a nightly basis, would have spilled out into the main basement. My question is how to address this water issue - one contractor wanted me to put french drains in both of the crawl spaces, but other people have told me to put them outside. Thanks.

wet basement

wet basement