I had terrible water problems in our basement until I reworked the gutter on the back of our house. It needs more tuning but has helped greatly. We used to have water in the basement every single time it rained, now we only get intrusions during the worst storms. Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 4:06 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: You need gutters on the roof with drains to carry the water to lower ground. If there is a path to lower ground and you don't mind an open ditch that would be easiest. Maybe a more gentle "swale" you could plant grass in so it isn't so ugly as an open dirt ditch. Allan On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, at 10:14 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > You think that would be better than just cutting a drainage ditch to let it > drain? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 11, 2021, at 9:05 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Get a roll of drain tubing and rent a Ditch Witch for a day. Run a drain > > tile from that area out to the road or to the pond. > > > > -D > > > >> On Jul 11, 2021, at 10:02 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> I was talking the neighbor the other day and he said he didn’t understand > >> why they didn’t build the pond in that area behind the shop where all the > >> water runs too instead of at the opposite end of the property. I should > >> look into building another one. I wonder how much that costs. > >> > >> The levees themselves are fine. It’s just the water that runs off the roof > >> of the shop collects between the shop and the levee and gets up to the > >> level of the concrete pad then starts coming in. I went back out last > >> night and the water is all run out for the most part. Will air it out > >> today. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>>> On Jul 11, 2021, at 8:56 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hope you get that figured out, sounds pretty miserable. Are you allowed > >>> to > >>> dig out a big pond / drainage area? I'd think about that, create a nice > >>> big pond, and then all that dirt that is dug out can be used to build up > >>> your levees and such to keep water out of the shop. May need to use some > >>> ancient Egyptian technology to get your elevations correct. > >>> > >>> Not a solution to flooding, but have you thought about pouring a concrete > >>> floor in the shop? > >>> ------------- > >>> Max > >>> Charleston SC > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 7:31 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > >>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Went out to the shop just now and it’s got an inch or 2 of water in it. > >>>> On > >>>> the back side of the shop there is an overhead door that I never use. In > >>>> the pasture behind that the water from the back average drains in that > >>>> area > >>>> toward the road. There is some dirt work done next to the shop, basically > >>>> they built a small levee behind the barn and shop to direct water toward > >>>> the road instead of in the shop. The problem is there is a space about 5 > >>>> feet wide between the backside of this and the shop that water will pond > >>>> and if it gets up to the door will come in. I have not seen it this bad > >>>> before but I have been meaning to see if I can get an angle blade for the > >>>> tractor and cut a ditch at the end of the shop to let this water drain > >>>> out > >>>> toward the road instead of getting deep enough to get into the shop. The > >>>> closed overhead door on the opposite wall was holding water in so I > >>>> cracked > >>>> it open to allow it just flow out the other side. I need to solve this > >>>> problem ASAP so this does not continue to happen. Water also runs thru > >>>> the > >>>> barn which I would like to stop. It also has this levee behind and to the > >>>> high side of the barn but still gets water thru it. I think it’s runoff > >>>> from the roof. For that I’m probably going to need to haul in some dirt > >>>> to > >>>> build up the level of the dirt floor inside the shop so water does not > >>>> come > >>>> in. After it does, it’s literally a mud pit in there. > >>>> > >>>> Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
