I am looking to buy this house, but it is built into a hill, and the water from the hill is draining into the house. It has caused water damage to the garage, but not the house. I need a way to divert the water. I can not get rid of the garage b/c the second story is on it.
2006-12-18 03:01:52 · 1 answers · asked by mistkie 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Simple way is to trench around it at a distance, then place in a drainage system pipes with holes in them to catch the water. Then cover with gravel and then cover that with soil. The water should drain into the subterranean piping and go around the house. However you have to be careful on the drainage so as not to get sued by another home owner for changing the water flow well into their property.
2006-12-18 03:07:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look into what's called a "Miradrain" system. A trench is dug about 12' from the home foundation approx. 6' deep, a fabric liner is placed in the trench, 4" to 6" corrugated pipe is placed at the bottom and is covered with 1" gravel to the 1/2 way point and pea gravel finishes to the top. The trench should run the length of the building and beyond, diverting the runoff to an area that can accommodate the excess water.
2006-12-18 03:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by twostories 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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If the natural runoff is onto your property, there is not much you can do about it. For example. If you live on the side of a hill and the hill was left intact and each house lot was simply leveled, then the natural runoff for the hill is obviously downhill. If the water from a lot above you runs down to yours that is just the natural flow of the water. About all you can do is put a wall and/or curtain drain or even drainage ditch on the uphill side of your lot with a drain out to the street. However, if the natural flow was away from your property and someone did some landscaping that resulted in an unnatural flow onto your property, you can make the fix it. For example, you live in a development where the land is relatively flat and the natural flow was towards the street. Then a neighbor put up a cinder block wall along the front of his property, preventing water from reaching the street. Since the water can not follow its natural course down to the street it has to go sideways. And if that sideways flow forces the water onto your property, you can demand they fix it. In this case, they will have to put a wall or curtain drain on the bottom side of their property to keep the water off of yours. So the first thing you need to do is to determine what the natural flow of water is for the lots involved.
2016-04-01 06:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How To Divert Water
2016-11-07 07:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be cautious about digging a 6' deep trench into the hill. It could destabilize the slope. If it is surface water that is causing the problem, then do some regrading out back, which could be simply constructing a diversion ditch around the the structure and would be my recommendation. If it is subsurface inundation, then the fix could get costly and further study would probably be warranted.
2006-12-20 09:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by daedgewood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pour a catch basin in front of your garage or where ever the water is running to. It might have so span the whole lenght of the garage or the hill which ever the case may be. dig you trench with a slight angle which ever way your ground sits or you which ever way you need the water to go.
2006-12-18 03:08:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jaming 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A retaining wall that has a drain built in the upper portion. What the retaining wall doesn't divert, the drain will.
2006-12-18 03:07:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋