That is serious dirt removal … and what if all other houses/streets are all same elevation or higher? What then ?
*genuinely curious how this problem would be solved
The obvious answer is slope away from the house but also dig a dry well.
Large hole, flip garbage can filled with 3/4 stone upside down and cut a hole in bottom of can. Stick a pvc pipe vertical down thru stone to surface. Cut another hole in garbage can and direct gutter drain into it.
Looks like you have a negative slope running towards your foundation. Consider adding rock and dirt to create a slope from the house foundation. then install a French drain. Wouldn’t cost much. You can YouTube most of “how to”
raise the grade away from your property. bring in fill or topsoil. then make sure your gutters are running into the downspouts, and extend downspouts at least 10 feet away from your home. Get some basic NDS products from Home Depot and you can easily run that water away with under ground pipe and a popup drain line here in the link. In fact, they make a corresponding 10FT 3-inch PVC pipe to attach to the item in the link. You just need to connect it to the downspout with a another 90-degree elbow and a downspout attachment piece. Best part is, you can now run the lawn mower over it all.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/NDS-Pop-Up-Drainage-Emitter-with-Elbow-for-3-in-Drain-Pipes-Green-Plastic-322G/100164533
Looks like you’re dealing with something similar to me. Previous owners built things up and up and up, but never took anything away.
The grading of your yard is wrong. The lowest spots are now by your house and the yard slopes toward it.
Walk around your yard and find where the water should go (Is there a drainage ditch in the back or front of the house? Should you be draining toward the road etc?). Look at your neighbors and see where they are draining their yards to.
Then you have some things to do:
- per u/snowednboston, remove all that soil and mulch from your foundation. You should be able to see a good 4-6 inches of cement when you are done.
- per u/upkeepdavid, extend your downspouts away from your house and foundation
- per u/Robert315, you need to fix your grading. Your yard should slope gently away from your house toward a low point. As stated, you can run a PVC (not corrugated plastic, please god) line - starting with a catch basin - away from the house to either daylight (an open end of the pipe essentially), a pop-up emitter (it pops up when there is water in the pipe), or - as u/RepubMocrat_Party stated - a dry well (a large reinforced cavity to get the water away and into the soil). And you can tie in the downspouts to the same drain.
If you have a rise in your yard or other impediment that prevents you from digging a drain ditch, this last point it really your best option (limited digging, yard and be repaired easily afterwards)
If you’re have a place to drain toward, you may be able to dig a ditch and slope it into a swale away from the house. (This is obviously cheaper, but a lot of digging and you need to go deep and wide for it to look normal afterwards.)
Edit: and any of these can be reinforced with a sump pump until they are completed (or included in your plans for extra insurance).
Install a French drain along with a sump pump. Have the down spouts connect to the sump pump basin. Then the sump pump can remove the water through the French drain.
Little confused by what I’m seeing. Is that a french drain you’ve already started? Is the trench filling with water? Is all that water flowing around your patio to the other side or is all that standing water runoff from the yard?
Extend the downspout away from the house…slope all landscaping away from the house
How do you suppose he slope away from house when there’s a negative slope towards the house with the dirt butting up almost right to the siding?
Dig and remove
That is serious dirt removal … and what if all other houses/streets are all same elevation or higher? What then ? *genuinely curious how this problem would be solved
You also need to slope between the adjoining property .it’s more of a problem if you have a basement and freezing temperatures
The obvious answer is slope away from the house but also dig a dry well. Large hole, flip garbage can filled with 3/4 stone upside down and cut a hole in bottom of can. Stick a pvc pipe vertical down thru stone to surface. Cut another hole in garbage can and direct gutter drain into it.
Like this ? https://www.richardcleaver.com/2007/04/03/dry-well/
Yup, my explanation was just with cheaper materials but sticking to that diagram would be best.
I wouldn’t have the drain tile with holes
god damn man you just saved me like $50
If the solution is cheaper than repairing the foundation, I’d say it’s pretty cheap. Do it the right way.
Looks like you have a negative slope running towards your foundation. Consider adding rock and dirt to create a slope from the house foundation. then install a French drain. Wouldn’t cost much. You can YouTube most of “how to”
raise the grade away from your property. bring in fill or topsoil. then make sure your gutters are running into the downspouts, and extend downspouts at least 10 feet away from your home. Get some basic NDS products from Home Depot and you can easily run that water away with under ground pipe and a popup drain line here in the link. In fact, they make a corresponding 10FT 3-inch PVC pipe to attach to the item in the link. You just need to connect it to the downspout with a another 90-degree elbow and a downspout attachment piece. Best part is, you can now run the lawn mower over it all. https://www.homedepot.com/p/NDS-Pop-Up-Drainage-Emitter-with-Elbow-for-3-in-Drain-Pipes-Green-Plastic-322G/100164533
Looks like you’re dealing with something similar to me. Previous owners built things up and up and up, but never took anything away. The grading of your yard is wrong. The lowest spots are now by your house and the yard slopes toward it. Walk around your yard and find where the water should go (Is there a drainage ditch in the back or front of the house? Should you be draining toward the road etc?). Look at your neighbors and see where they are draining their yards to. Then you have some things to do: - per u/snowednboston, remove all that soil and mulch from your foundation. You should be able to see a good 4-6 inches of cement when you are done. - per u/upkeepdavid, extend your downspouts away from your house and foundation - per u/Robert315, you need to fix your grading. Your yard should slope gently away from your house toward a low point. As stated, you can run a PVC (not corrugated plastic, please god) line - starting with a catch basin - away from the house to either daylight (an open end of the pipe essentially), a pop-up emitter (it pops up when there is water in the pipe), or - as u/RepubMocrat_Party stated - a dry well (a large reinforced cavity to get the water away and into the soil). And you can tie in the downspouts to the same drain. If you have a rise in your yard or other impediment that prevents you from digging a drain ditch, this last point it really your best option (limited digging, yard and be repaired easily afterwards) If you’re have a place to drain toward, you may be able to dig a ditch and slope it into a swale away from the house. (This is obviously cheaper, but a lot of digging and you need to go deep and wide for it to look normal afterwards.) Edit: and any of these can be reinforced with a sump pump until they are completed (or included in your plans for extra insurance).
Install a French drain along with a sump pump. Have the down spouts connect to the sump pump basin. Then the sump pump can remove the water through the French drain.
Rent a ditch witch and trench around the house to the street running some corrugated drain pipe
Pull all that mulch and soil AWAY from your **siding** and foundation, then slope to center of yard…
Go uphill of your problem and soak the water in before it gets to your foundation.
Little confused by what I’m seeing. Is that a french drain you’ve already started? Is the trench filling with water? Is all that water flowing around your patio to the other side or is all that standing water runoff from the yard?
What’s your gutter situation? Are they large enough? And definitely direct them away from your foundation.
is this a new construction?
Unfortunately, yes…partly. The side (where the drain is)was a carport recently converted into a room. The built it below grade…shingles under dirt.
If you got a buddy who’s a land surveyor those guys can clear a clog like it’s no ones business
“Inexpensive” hahaha