Questions tagged [drainage]
Use this tag when the topic is about controlling water runoff, particularly near structures but also in yards or elsewhere.
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How do I build a French drain?
There's a shed near the side of the house with a roof that's pitched to shoot water at the house's foundation. That side of the house also has no gutters. There's a very slight grade to send water ...
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How do I stop the dripping noise from my gutters?
It has just recently started raining where I live, and I am new to this house. When the rain ceases and the water is dripping from the gutters through the drain, I can hear the dripping from inside ...
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How should I install a curtain drain in my crawl space?
Since I have wet areas in the crawl space, I have decided to dig a trench at the perimeter of my crawl space to take care of the water. This would also allow me to install rigid foam insulation on ...
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How to protect Building foundation from Dry wells
We have installed 6 dry wells around the building as there was no empty space for drainage water.
We did this as per the engineer's advice.
Sand texture:
It's clay
Water table 2 ( During rainy season ...
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Can this water damage be explained by lack of gutters and grading issues?
We are currently midway through a major renovation to an old house. Part of the renovation was digging out a new basement and adding a new foundation around it. The basement has a ceiling height of ...
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How do I improve the drainage of this grass driveway?
I've got a long grass side-yard which doubles as a driveway for both my residence and the ally behind my house. After a few heavy rainstorms here in Southeastern North Carolina (read: business as ...
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What could cause my washing machine to stop before the rinse cycle?
My washing machine will get stuck right before the rinse cycle. The washing machine will be full of water. The way to "fix it" is to twist the knob right after the "rinse" line, find the sweet spot, ...
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Keeping water away from house
I just bought a place. The basement was waterproofed by the last owner - a french drain installed under the basement floor around the perimeter, leading to a sump pump (done professionally, but no ...
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Is channel in basement standard design?
Determined this is a 4 inch slab on top of original slab. Possibly with internal drainage channels from center of basement to edge, where it runs to pictured channel and sump pump.
House has channel ...
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instead of removing low area..........puddles in my concrete patio
Amending my original question...
The edge of slab is only a couple feet from Low area and it would pour into gravel theoretically if not for the low point. would it make more sense to try to grind ...
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What can I do about my drains constantly getting blocked?
The one thing I have tried to do about this is use those foaming and non-foaming drain unblockers regularly. That has just been money down the drain, pardon the pun.
I suspect that unblockers only ...
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How can I quiet a noisy downspout? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop the dripping noise from my gutters?
I have metal downspouts that come down from by gutters. One of them happens to be right by my bedroom window. When the rain ...
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How should this underground down-spout-in-yard-drain be appropriately installed?
I noticed a few weeks ago during the rainy season that underground drainage from my downspout was flooded and not draining right. I purchased a pressure washer attachment that promised to unclog ...
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What are my gutter guard options?
As I mentioned in a prior post, I'm planning to add some gutters to my house. I see that there's wide variety of gutter guards available and was curious which ones are better?
As far as I can tell,...
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How can I prevent water from being fed to my foundation through the gas-line ditch?
I recently had a gas line installed, and now there is water leaking into my basement about six feet below grade. It is not surprising that the 130-year-old fieldstone foundation is porous, but until ...
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Why does my toilet keeps blocking and then spill out of the drain outside?
Recently out toilet has started to repeatedly block. First thing we tried was the warm water method, which worked at first.
When that stopped working, and problem came back, we used caustic soda. ...
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What is causing my kitchen drain to back up into my dishwasher?
I have tried vinegar and baking soda and a commercial cleaner. When I use the plunger the water in time will go down. What should I do first? Should I take my dishwasher apart or the attempt to clean ...
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How do I cut grooves in self-leveling concrete to incorporate an existing drain?
This is a follow up question to my previous question about leveling a basement floor without losing the drainage. After the feedback I decided to use self-leveling concrete and cut (or form it in ...
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How close should a french drain be to a foundation?
I am preparing to install a perimeter drain in my crawlspace. I will be using NDS-EZ drain pipe. My question is Where is the proper place to dig the trench? Next to the foundation or 1 foot away ...
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Under bathroom sink piping (exposed)
We are looking at setting up the piping for under our wall mounted sink (no vanity, ie, piping will be exposed). And after our contractor finished putting the wall we noticed that the hole from the ...
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Proper backfill for a trench dug below foundation level (within the 45 degree cone of support)
Given a trench dug below foundation level, what's the proper way to backfill? Here I'm talking about a trench below the bottom edge of an unreinforced concrete foundation built in 1950, supporting a ...
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Can I extend my sump pump outlet?
I live in area without sewers, so we depend on swales and drainage ditches when it rains. My basement sump pump outlet is in the ditch in front of the house, but it's a couple of inches below grass ...
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Prevent water seepage through concrete block foundation
Earlier this week we had a really warm day which was welcomed by many after such a long cold winter. That night I came home to find a small puddle forming on my basement floor. I followed the water ...
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Water logging in demolished pool area
I recently got a pool filled in in my backyard. The Contractor cut three large holes (3x3') in the bottom of the pool before filling it. This is the first heavy rain of the season and I see a lot of ...
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Managing water entry at garage door during high winds on rainy days
I have a garage floor that's level, and the driveway slopes very slightly away from the garage door. On rainy days, I don't have any issues with water entry, but on high-wind days, the rain hits the ...
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Blockage in bendy pipe
I have a problematic pipe that has a blockage. Problematic for three reasons:
I could not snake through it (I have a 25 feet snake with a manual spin, spent a good while spinning trying to snake ...
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