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Assessing and Planning Foundation Drainage

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Massive water problems led to one disaster after another. 4 k video pt 2 of 2

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What happens here

The presenter walks along the side of a house, pointing out areas where the ground's grade is humped over, causing rainwater to collect and run directly along the foundation. He highlights the problem areas and outlines the solution: raising the grade along the foundation, installing a 3-foot wide rock barrier, using landscape edging, and placing a non-permeable poly barrier beneath the rock. He then pans across the backyard area behind several residential units, explaining the plan to scrape off existing dirt, move it to create a swale (a shallow channel), and direct water away from the buildings towards the street.

Goal: Identify existing water flow problems and formulate solutions for proper drainage.

Tools and materials

  • Landscape Edging — Defining the border of the rock barrier
  • Non-Permeable Poly Barrier — Placing beneath the rock to prevent water seepage into the soil below and redirect it
  • Rock — Creating a protective drainage barrier

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be done all right we we got a couple of different things we're gonna be doing today one of the things is we're gonna be fixing the grade on this hill cuz like I said earlier it's pumped over and all the water's just running from the back from the back round down the side here so what we're gonna do is bring the grade up and then it's gonna be rock from the side of the house about three feet out we're gonna run the edging down and then poly and rock so that should fix the water problems along this hill inside of this house here and then second thing we're gonna start working on the grade along the back here so we got scrape all this side off scrape it down out here and bring it all up along the back here to make a swale so we got the water going down here out and around the hill towards the street where it's supposed to be I'm about there here all the way down it's gonna bring the grade up probably about a good six inches that tapering down out that way towards the Swale that we are gonna make so you're gonna have a gonna have a pretty busy day

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