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How I Feel After Landscaper Quoted Me a Price for Dealing with Drainage
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:06 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ty16dd41I
I mean I'm not asking for the Great Wall of China 2.0.
Well, a guy can live with just one kidney.
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Re: How I Feel After Landscaper Quoted Me a Price for Dealing with Drainage
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:11 AM
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This is when I say enough is enough with illegal immigration….when the landscaping jobs they did for cheap cost the same as if a gringo did them.
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Oculus Spirit [75917]
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I think you've gotta talk to the fellas around a taco truck. You don't
Apr 10, 2024, 8:13 AM
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want the ones that the gringos send out has been my experience, with home repair stuff anyway.
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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My guy is German, and he brings his own crew from south of the border.
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:18 AM
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And I swear he works as hard or harder than any of them.
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Germans.***
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Apr 10, 2024, 9:06 AM
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Oculus Spirit [86052]
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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Nah. That was the yard guy. Got a new/better one now.
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Apr 10, 2024, 9:25 AM
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This guy is from Germany. He does mostly commercial work with drainage. Also does retaining walls, etc.
He and a helper dug a trench around our foundation in the crawlspace by hand, added French drains, and 10 tons of gravel, routed the drains under the foundation, through the back yard, down to the creek. And this was just for the crawlspace.
Put a drain to catch water at the bottom of the driveway, also routed to creek. Then across the front of the house where we had water standing on the sidewalk, also back to the creek. Hooked in gutter drains from the roof, and the hvac pipes.
Was $15k at the time. And that was a deal IMO.
Our lot drops 50 feet per the topo maps.
Basically front yard is fairly level. Then the house. Then the back yard is fairly level, then drops another 10 feet to the creek area.
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All-TigerNet [12028]
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The idea
Apr 10, 2024, 9:29 AM
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is to keep the water away from your foundation before it penetrates in to the crawlspace.
By then, the soil under and around your foundation has been saturated and will begin to move.
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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12 years and no foundation settling. Like none.
Apr 10, 2024, 9:40 AM
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Well, maybe 9 years since the guy did the drain work. The crawlspace is dry now, no more mold. Wood moisture never gets over 16%. If you saw the soil, you'd know there won't be much settling.
I have a pick axe in the garage used to dig holes to bury pets, and large plants. The soil is rock hard clay.
Our main motivation in doing this was the moisture problem in the crawlspace, and also erosion in the yard.
We have neighbors who have done far more than we did. One neighbor just concreted the entire crawl space. They lost their termite bond doing that. Another did encapsulation, also lost their bond. Two neighbors have added legit retaining walls in their back yards.
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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I got a guy, in the Columbia area, I'd highly recommend.
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:16 AM
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He dug and installed 800 feet of french drains under the house and in the yard. He hauled in 10 tons of gravel under the house as well. Fixed a big moisture problem we had in the crawlspace, and probably saved our yard too. He even routed our HVAC drain+gutters into the french drain so no wetness in the yard at all now.
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If your hvac is draining that much condensation
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:43 AM
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You’ve got a moisture problem in crawl space
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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No, the HVAC condensation drain on the outside of the house.
Apr 10, 2024, 8:56 AM
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There are two exterior pipes from the attic HVAC unit, and another from the ground unit. Both routed (outside) into french drains.
We have hard clay soil, also. Which means it holds water. Always had a muddy spot out by the HVAC unit, and don't anymore.
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All-TigerNet [14289]
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I heard once that a 1500 square foot house can have 2
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Apr 10, 2024, 9:13 AM
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bathtubs full of water being pulled out of the air by the AC on hot and humid days. I can just about confirm this with what our units do during the summer before I rerouted them in a similar way.
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Oculus Spirit [97968]
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Yep. Summer on the HVAC side of the house was a mud pit.
Apr 10, 2024, 7:41 PM
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That's a lot of water they drain.
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