Nettikturbo, are you saying that if you build a french drain around the house, it could eliminate most of the water from entering the house? Did you pay $10k for that? If I build a french drain near the property line (around the house) and raise the house (putting it on a slope on all 4 corners), would that help as well? (the house is sitting at the bottom of a hill)? Just asking!!!
Yes it cost 10K, it was a weeks worth of 8 hr days with heavy machinery to dig out all of this dirt, and truck it away. Plus two tri axle loads of 3/4 crush stone. Piping, fabric etc. Tied in an old footing drain that was just at the base of the house that had no outlet, so basically water would find it's way to the footing drains and stone and sit there... Also ran the gutter outlets in a separate closed piping system to drain at the edge of the property as far away from others as possible.
WOW! It seems like a lot of work. Do you live in a flooded area, high water table area? In my case, I am in a high water area and I need a good draining system on the outside of the house and a cast iron sump pump for the basement. Ouch! 10K... I guess I am going to cry all the way to the bank. Well, I am here in NJ and I know a few contractors looking for work.
Yes, well we were able to finance it, and Paid it off from Nov until about 2 weeks ago. We had no choice. Wet ground and lots of snow last year caused our liner to float during thaw of last spring. And then Irene and the storm that showed up a week after Irene both caused it to float again. So it floated 3 times in our first year of home ownership. Our downstairs constantly got wet during steady rain about 24 hours AFTER it stopped or kept raining whichever. You can PM me for email addy to chat
i dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
@Alaric Luciano thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@HumanityWins Well the 3/4 crush alone was about $6000, not sure where you'd be getting that for free, I had two Tri-Axle loads of the stuff. And because of that and the digging needed we had heavy machinery for an entire week. Not sure who'd be willing to do any of that for peanuts. Fuel costs alone for removing so much dirt and digging wasn't insignificant alone. But then again people always say they can do and get things cheaper than anyone else. Just an inferiority complex
Nettikturbo, are you saying that if you build a french drain around the house, it could eliminate most of the water from entering the house? Did you pay $10k for that? If I build a french drain near the property line (around the house) and raise the house (putting it on a slope on all 4 corners), would that help as well? (the house is sitting at the bottom of a hill)? Just asking!!!
Yes it cost 10K, it was a weeks worth of 8 hr days with heavy machinery to dig out all of this dirt, and truck it away. Plus two tri axle loads of 3/4 crush stone.
Piping, fabric etc. Tied in an old footing drain that was just at the base of the house that had no outlet, so basically water would find it's way to the footing drains and stone and sit there... Also ran the gutter outlets in a separate closed piping system to drain at the edge of the property as far away from others as possible.
WOW! It seems like a lot of work. Do you live in a flooded area, high water table area?
In my case, I am in a high water area and I need a good draining system on the outside of the house and a cast iron sump pump for the basement. Ouch! 10K... I guess I am going to cry all the way to the bank. Well, I am here in NJ and I know a few contractors looking for work.
Yes, well we were able to finance it, and Paid it off from Nov until about 2 weeks ago.
We had no choice.
Wet ground and lots of snow last year caused our liner to float during thaw of last spring. And then Irene and the storm that showed up a week after Irene both caused it to float again. So it floated 3 times in our first year of home ownership.
Our downstairs constantly got wet during steady rain about 24 hours AFTER it stopped or kept raining whichever.
You can PM me for email addy to chat
Wow cool one video thanks
@HumanityWins Well $10,000 later that's exactly what we've done. So far so good, no need to modify the home at all.
oh ok..
thank you so much!
Looks awesome. I'd have to sell the house to afford it though...
i dont mean to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?
I was dumb lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
@Pedro Emmett Instablaster ;)
@Alaric Luciano thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process now.
Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Alaric Luciano it worked and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you really help me out!
@Pedro Emmett Glad I could help :)
@HumanityWins Well the 3/4 crush alone was about $6000, not sure where you'd be getting that for free, I had two Tri-Axle loads of the stuff.
And because of that and the digging needed we had heavy machinery for an entire week. Not sure who'd be willing to do any of that for peanuts. Fuel costs alone for removing so much dirt and digging wasn't insignificant alone.
But then again people always say they can do and get things cheaper than anyone else. Just an inferiority complex
no no, lol.
My back yard is now like 15% Crushed stone! Haha.