My house sits on a double city lot, 60' wide. There was a house at one time on the second lot. Right now its open yard, but will soon house our 16'x30 addition to our home. My problem is that behind our exisiting house and behind where the house next door used to be my backyard floods. 80% of the yard is grass, the rest is garage and a brick paver patio. We want to build up our yard and grade it so the water runs out of the yard. Does anyone have any general "how tos" for this project? We've got some ideas as well as all of the resources, but want to make sure this is done properly. Should we remove the sod, lay gravel, just top soil, both, leave the sod, should the water run off towards the sides of the yard? The neighbor behind us is also building his yard up in spring, but the neighbors on both sides of us are not. There is limited information on this that I can find. If anyone has a website or can offer advice it would be appreciated!
2007-01-06
04:39:54
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skyblueme
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Garden & Landscape