I hate digging!!!

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

You had a bucket dig for you. This thread is not bitchworthy.

Bucket?

Originally Posted by Rider

Fix your fucking lawn.

Dude... its on the list. With the SIL, BIL, Niece and their 2 dogs... and this sump pump exiting into the yard, the lawn got trashed... I had over 300# of dog running around this yard for the past 6 months...

Still have to break up that concrete border and move out all those rocks. Don't like them. Then bring in a bunch of dirt, seed and straw over. But it has to be done in sections cause of the dogs. Muddy paws in the house won't be good.

Originally Posted by Trip

Rent you a Mexican from Home depot

I almost wished I had... luckily we found it near the house.

Originally Posted by Rider

We don't have those up here.....

Exactly. Not like that.

Originally Posted by ontwo

Looks good, man. I know about the joys of home ownership. Been fucking with my foundation for six months now

For sure! Its always something! Luckily in the grand scheme $45 made this a cheap fix.

Originally Posted by Cutty72

My sump pump plumbing is all exposed. Straight up out of the basement along the wall, under the deck and then plain old sump pump hose into the yard. No digging required.

That is janky though as you said... floods the yard. my parents house was that way. I still prefer this way even with this extra work. I figure it should be good for another 25yrs. Plus with the clean out and thicker sked pipe, I would just snake it with an electric snake.

Originally Posted by Cutty72

Yup, the PVC goes up and out of the house at a level right below the deck and then PVC out to the edge of the deck, from there it turns to sump pump hose out into the yard. it's flexable and easy to move. In the spring when my yard floods I add on to it to get the water out to the ditch. If I don't, the sump runs every 20 min because the ground is so saturated.

Sump pump hose, if you don't know what it is.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/4YY37

Yeah that sucks!!!

[Cutty72]

It only happens in the spring of the year. Most of my neighbors pumps run almost constant. About 2 weeks of it running into the ditch (or however long it takes for the back yard to dry out) and then it's all good.

[Cutty72]

Found this pic. It is from about a month ago, this is why my sump pump runs at all. Once the water is gone, my house stays dry.

[Gas Man]

That is nuts. i would be doing whatever I had to, to fix that issue.

[Cutty72]

Well to "fix" that issue would require hundreds of yards of fill, moving the garage pictured, and completely redoing everything in the back yard. I don't have that kind of money at this point, and the possibility of a move in the next few years makes it an uneconomical choice
Even after that it's not a for sure fix, because the water back up is caused by frozen culverts under the streets. Happens in the spring and within a week or so they let loose and it's gone.
I do plan on hauling in some fill to make it so less of the yard is flooded, however.

Oh, and this pic is nothing compared to last year!
Water was knee deep on me outside that walk in door. Up over 2 pieces of siding on the garage. My Cutlass was up on car ramps to stay dry!

[Gas Man]

What about field tiling draining into a ditch?

[Cutty72]

Snow blocks all the ditches and the water is from the ditches backing up. If the culverts would flow normally, there would be no water in the back yard, so field tiling wouldn't help. Only thing that would prevent it would be to build it up.

[z06boy]

Yikes !! I'm fortunate NOT to have any of those issues.

[ontwo]

Speaking of home ownership...I've had a company working on my foundation for 6 months. Spent $7500 and the thing is no better off than before. I've also had to do things during this process, like rip out the flooring in a laundry room and crossbrace the floor joist, tear off siding, replace rotted joist, etc. And like I said, the initial goal of leveling the back side of the house hasn't happened. So the wifey actually asked for our money back. The guy says........
















YES!!! Can you fucking believe it??? He says they will come out and take the beams and posts back that they put under my house and cut me a check for my $7500. I've dealt with lots of folks in the construction business. This is just unheard of. Oh, and before you say that it will fuck up my house when he takes the beams out, remember that they didn't move the house a bit in the right direction. Also, they will be leaving all the additional footings they poured. Hell, I can put a hell of a lot of bracing under there using their footings.

[Particle Man]

Been there. Try having an underground spring running under your house. I had to drill holes in the concrete to keep the floor from cracking and had to dig a trench twice that length by hand

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