tugengineer
Marine/Ocean
- Apr 27, 2003
- 1
I have a two story home located in flat farm land.When it rains the water builds up around the house . It comes in the laundry room door that is on a slab,the rest of the house is on a crawl space. I have found standing water under the house also during hard prolonged rain storms. The driveway is circler around the house and is hard packed sand. On the end of the house that the landry rm. is the biggest problem with water. From the house to the planted field there is maybe a 12'' drop. The driveway is between the house and the field which is higher. I want to dig a trench and put drain pipe and gravel and lay pipe under driveway to edge of the field. But how deep do i go and how far off the foundation do i make this trench?
Around the rest of the house I guess I can build it up with topsoil to help it from building water up at those points. I'm also thinking of putting sand under the house and new plastic. The home was built in 1955.Any help that ya'll can give to do this job wright ?
Around the rest of the house I guess I can build it up with topsoil to help it from building water up at those points. I'm also thinking of putting sand under the house and new plastic. The home was built in 1955.Any help that ya'll can give to do this job wright ?
