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
An open ditch or swale is fine, it’s just pasture anyway. I first need to clean
the area out as it has become the scrap pile for things needing to go to the
scrap yard or dump
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 11, 2021, at 3:06 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> You need gutters on the
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,
It would be, only they would be “Okie drains”.
-D
> On Jul 11, 2021, at 1:53 PM, greg via Mercedes wrote:
>
> My house in the PNW has "French Drains" which prevent my garage from
> flooding. What you are describing sounds like basically the same thing.
>
>
>
>> Yeah dig a trench around
We had big rains some years ago and Angie asked if I was worried about
flooding. I explained that if we flooded Boston would be 900 feet under water...
Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:03 AM, Allan Streib via
Mercedes wrote: My house is on high ground.
My house in the PNW has "French Drains" which prevent my garage from
flooding. What you are describing sounds like basically the same thing.
> Yeah dig a trench around the perimeter of the building, put in some
> gravel then a drain pipe with gravel over, then connect it to a drain
> going out
Yeah dig a trench around the perimeter of the building, put in some
gravel then a drain pipe with gravel over, then connect it to a drain
going out to your retention pond or ditch or whatever. Kind of a
reverse septic field. You want to get the water from around the building.
--FT
On
Probably, and then you wouldn’t have an open ditch to deal with.
-D
> On 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
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
> 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
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
> wrote:
>
> I was talking the neighbor the other day and he said he didn’t understand why
> they
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
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
My house is on high ground. After dealing with 4' of water in my basement in
Chicago, I will never buy on low ground again. Somehow the furnace was OK but I
had to replace water heater, washer, and dryer and throw out a lot of stuff
that was stored down there.
Allan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, at
13 matches
Mail list logo
