Water drainage/tiling, landscaping, PBB magic marker

AthlonAJ · 03-15-2007, 11:36 AM

I apologize in advance for the overly detailed schematics.

Several problems with the current setup of my driveway and ground by the house. First, the layout, house on the left, round turd brown looking circle is a tree which I don't really give a shit about since birds use it as a shitting post, cement patio next to it with a privacy fence (the brown line), driveway and then there's a shop at the end of the drive which I didn't draw in cause...well I'm lazy. About 3-4 feet to the right of the driveway is the edge of my property, gas station next door.

Besides being boring as hell there are several problems. First I use the shop for my business so I get a lot of larger trucks in for steel, welding gas, UPS and FedEx many times a week. It's plenty wide for them but I'd like to make it wider so they can pull in and do a 3 point turn around, especially since this is right off a highway. Problem #2 is parking obviously, there is none and add that with trucks coming in...shuffling rigs around to make room sucks. Last problem is the main one, water.

When it rains, nearly all the water from the gas station and it's canopy comes rushing down towards the driveway. Most of it will goto the right of it, but it usually goes over it eventually. But also water from the highway and the driveway itself end up in the corner of the house. Older home, basement windows about level with the ground and no slope away from it. Those are not blue onions in the corner by the house either.

I've already got the materials for blocking up the windows since they're old and I don't care about them anyways. I know I'll have to put in some slope but there's no way I can build it up enough to direct water across the driveway. I'd like to put in some sort of tiling/drainage starting at that corner and then across the driveway since all the other water runs right along the shop. It's low enough there that it actually goes through several other properties into a creek. Everyone has kinda used it for that purpose. But I know jackshit about drainage/tiling...help?

Then there's the landscaping part of it. Could care less if I kept the tree or not. Not going to bother with grass next to the house and in that corner since it would be next to nothing anyways. Rockgarden? (nylint crawler fun), but I'm at a blank. Oh and there will be a walkway at the front of the house where currently there is zero which sucks. Throw me some ideas, I've seen what a lot of you have done so I know there some skills. Buddy has a skidsteer, friend of mine runs a dumptruck at a quarry 2 miles down the road so I've got access to some help.

redranger4.0 · 03-15-2007, 01:16 PM

got any dimensions its hard to tell if the pictures are to scale or not.

AthlonAJ · 03-15-2007, 02:40 PM

About yay wide and exactly bout that long.

NoJoke · 03-15-2007, 02:47 PM

"This old house" just had a great series of episodes on how to jack up a house. (what kind of boat is that?)

03-15-2007, 11:36 AM	#1
AthlonAJ Granite Guru Join Date: Mar 2002 Member # 10462 Location: Iowa Posts: 836	Water drainage/tiling, landscaping, PBB magic marker I apologize in advance for the overly detailed schematics. Several problems with the current setup of my driveway and ground by the house. First, the layout, house on the left, round turd brown looking circle is a tree which I don't really give a shit about since birds use it as a shitting post, cement patio next to it with a privacy fence (the brown line), driveway and then there's a shop at the end of the drive which I didn't draw in cause...well I'm lazy. About 3-4 feet to the right of the driveway is the edge of my property, gas station next door. Besides being boring as hell there are several problems. First I use the shop for my business so I get a lot of larger trucks in for steel, welding gas, UPS and FedEx many times a week. It's plenty wide for them but I'd like to make it wider so they can pull in and do a 3 point turn around, especially since this is right off a highway. Problem #2 is parking obviously, there is none and add that with trucks coming in...shuffling rigs around to make room sucks. Last problem is the main one, water. When it rains, nearly all the water from the gas station and it's canopy comes rushing down towards the driveway. Most of it will goto the right of it, but it usually goes over it eventually. But also water from the highway and the driveway itself end up in the corner of the house. Older home, basement windows about level with the ground and no slope away from it. Those are not blue onions in the corner by the house either. I've already got the materials for blocking up the windows since they're old and I don't care about them anyways. I know I'll have to put in some slope but there's no way I can build it up enough to direct water across the driveway. I'd like to put in some sort of tiling/drainage starting at that corner and then across the driveway since all the other water runs right along the shop. It's low enough there that it actually goes through several other properties into a creek. Everyone has kinda used it for that purpose. But I know jackshit about drainage/tiling...help? Then there's the landscaping part of it. Could care less if I kept the tree or not. Not going to bother with grass next to the house and in that corner since it would be next to nothing anyways. Rockgarden? (nylint crawler fun), but I'm at a blank. Oh and there will be a walkway at the front of the house where currently there is zero which sucks. Throw me some ideas, I've seen what a lot of you have done so I know there some skills. Buddy has a skidsteer, friend of mine runs a dumptruck at a quarry 2 miles down the road so I've got access to some help. __________________ www.AJ's Offroad Armor.com

03-15-2007, 02:40 PM	#3
AthlonAJ Granite Guru Join Date: Mar 2002 Member # 10462 Location: Iowa Posts: 836	About yay wide and exactly bout that long. __________________ www.AJ's Offroad Armor.com

03-15-2007, 02:47 PM	#4
NoJoke I'm a little tea pot Join Date: Dec 2002 Member # 15480 Location: San Diego County Posts: 356	"This old house" just had a great series of episodes on how to jack up a house. (what kind of boat is that?) __________________ "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in crisis, remain neutral."--Martin Luther King Jr.

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03-15-2007, 01:16 PM	#2
redranger4.0 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Member # 25325 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,580	got any dimensions its hard to tell if the pictures are to scale or not.