Along the concrete driveway, I have this long 85" basement window, which is too big for anything but a custom made window well cover. It has a concrete base. When it rains super heavy, water fills the base then it leaks through the bottom edge of the window, and into the basement. Not sure what purpose the concrete base serves, but is it possible to just drill a hole in that concrete and the water would drain out?? I'm thinking I could always test it with a hose too see if it works. If not just patch the hole. If so how big a hole-- with what tool?? Is it possible the hole would cause more water to rise into the well from below grade? I guess it's about 20 inches from the window well base to the driveway surface. Thanks!

Right now I have pier and beam foundation. Has been fine. But I want to close in the perimeter with cinder blocks so I can insulate better and run my water pipes down there. i am contemplating underpinning. I believe that’s what they call it. Basically digging to frost line pouring a footing and stacking block but I’m unsure how to get a tight seal to the bottom of the house and how I could secure it to the house. I know I will have to do the underpinning in at least one place cause it seems the previous owner tried to build a bathroom on dry stacked blocks and well a few cracked and the wall bows out now i tried researching it but there’s not a lot of info on it. If I had to guess I would have to lift my house so it would sit on the new foundation and I don’t want to do that with all the tile I have in my house. any input? Thanks