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Feb 28, 2018 00:28
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HycoCam posted:That is a lot of water... You'd need a massive cistern--your dry well would fill in minutes. Can you not take the water out to the street and let the storm drains handle the run off? Trenching and drains to the street wouldn't be too bad. The other option is to bring a few dump trucks of dirt and raise your back yard so instead of it being a concave, it is convex--but between the cost of the dirt, the equipment to pack and level, and the reseeding/sod--you are looking at 3x to 4x the cost of the drains. Plus you'll probably end up killing/having to remove your tree. You should definitely talk to your neighbours and check out their situations. As suggested, just trying to get it to drain out of your garden and into the street would likely be easiest and cheapest. Does your house not have any mains drainage that you could redirect it into? Where do the gutters on your house go to? (Are they helping to make this worse?) I used to have problems with my yard flooding and it even came into the house a couple of times. I added a big run of surface drain channel which was then plumbed into my house drain where my guttering goes. I then also found that I could just build a large concrete ridge along the highest edge of my property and redirect a lot of water further down the road. This required coordination with some of my neighbours who then had to put in place similar measures!
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Feb 28, 2018 01:03
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Just as a note, DO NOT plumb your yard drainage into your sanitary sewer. That's just asking for raw sewage overflows, both in your house, and downstream.
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Feb 28, 2018 06:52
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Can you just like fill in your yard so all the water flows to your neighbors instead? My kid's school did a huge project to replace the dirt on the field to improve drainage. Bigger, better collection pipes helped, but a new layering of sand makes it work.
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Feb 28, 2018 07:42
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peanut posted:Can you just like fill in your yard so all the water flows to your neighbors instead? You can absolutely get sued doing that; our neighbors flooded our basement a decade ago with a similar stunt and we successfully sued them.
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Feb 28, 2018 08:43
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Then there's only one solution left: start a "raw water" business and take money away from rich hippies.
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Feb 28, 2018 08:59
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Yeah, you're sitting on liquid gold my friend!
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Feb 28, 2018 10:31
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Unfortunately the worst area for flooding (the darker blue) is also the furthest from where it would have to go, but I suppose I could dig some drains that run to the side of the house with the driveway and then have a stone trench that runs along the driveway to the street (where I would install my raw water bottling pump). I'm pretty sure I'll be fighting elevation (though not majorly; this is Dallas, not Denver,), and I'm not sure if I could make it not look out of place with the house. It isn't exactly a neighborhood full of elegant stone driveway edging.   Or I could go hogwild and have the drains run to the other side and line our front garden with the drainage rocks/bricks and just have fuckin' rocks everywhere. The garden has had problems with water too, but nothing serious. (above picture was before we moved in, below is after we redid the landscaping) 
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Feb 28, 2018 17:37
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lol goonspeed
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Feb 28, 2018 21:08
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Friend posted:Or I could go hogwild and have the drains run to the other side and line our front garden with the drainage rocks/bricks and just have fuckin' rocks everywhere. The garden has had problems with water too, but nothing serious. (above picture was before we moved in, below is after we redid the landscaping) Does your roof have guttering? where does that run to?
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Mar 1, 2018 18:31
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Tomarse posted:Does your roof have guttering? where does that run to? Nah, we got a couple estimates but haven't gotten around to getting gutters yet.
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Mar 1, 2018 18:38
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whatever you do please don't forget about us when you are swimming in raw water buck$$$$
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Mar 1, 2018 18:40
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Does your road have storm drains or is it just paved with curbs?
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Mar 1, 2018 20:17
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Btw I would get a pro landscaper kind of company to fix it. Someone who makes baseball fields and understands different types of dirt. Digging by hand... never ends...
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Mar 1, 2018 23:28
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HycoCam posted:Does your road have storm drains or is it just paved with curbs? Just curbs! It's a real shitshow.
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Mar 2, 2018 00:33
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Friend posted:Nah, we got a couple estimates but haven't gotten around to getting gutters yet. You do realise therefore that much of the flood in your garden is generated from runoff from your roof (and your neighbours' if they also lack guttering). If you do the maths it always impresses me just how many litres/gallons of water you can collect from a typical roof.
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Mar 2, 2018 13:21
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That will maximize efficiency of the raw water collection system !!!!! You could even put flavor cubes to cure on the roof until the rain comes. vvv I agree and it's good that we could identify the root of the water problem before you started digging everything up. peanut fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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Mar 2, 2018 13:34
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No drains or gutters? Where the gently caress do you live?
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Mar 2, 2018 13:42
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cakesmith handyman posted:No drains or gutters? Where the gently caress do you live? I would guess Texas or the Southwest.
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Mar 3, 2018 02:44
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cakesmith handyman posted:No drains or gutters? Where the gently caress do you live? West of Dallas, TX, North of the dump, South of hell. I live in a cul de sac, there's drainage at the end of the street but that's like four houses down. I'm sure that the gutters would help, but they're ultimately still putting water in my backyard (even if done tactically) and my neighbors still won't have them. Maybe I'll just dig a pool and let nature fill it. Swimming in raw water is true luxury
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Mar 3, 2018 03:57
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My gutters go straight into the ground and connect to some kind of mystery pipe. We get plenty of rain year-round and typhoons in summer.
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Mar 3, 2018 06:35
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Friend posted:I'm sure that the gutters would help, but they're ultimately still putting water in my backyard (even if done tactically) and my neighbors still won't have them. They're supposed to connect to your main drain and thence to the sewer.
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Mar 3, 2018 10:20
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Friend posted:West of Dallas, TX, North of the dump, South of hell. I live in a cul de sac, there's drainage at the end of the street but that's like four houses down. A dry pond isn't the worst idea.
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Mar 3, 2018 14:56
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You need to lay drainage pipes on both sides of the house, install gutters, and then tie your downspouts into the drainage at a minimum. I'd also look into grading the yard towards drainage. I actually like the look and utility of the drainage rocks, we've also been slowly xeriscaping similarly. None of this is honestly that difficult to do. At least the water isn't pooling up against your house!
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Mar 3, 2018 18:02
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Where the gently caress do y'all live? I've never seen gutters that do something other than shoot water away from the foundation
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Mar 3, 2018 18:15
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Friend posted:Where the gently caress do y'all live? I've never seen gutters that do something other than shoot water away from the foundation The UK. Our guttering feeds into our soil stacks and thence to the sewer. We get a lot of rain.
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Mar 3, 2018 19:20
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Friend posted:Where the gently caress do y'all live? I've never seen gutters that do something other than shoot water away from the foundation It's super-common to tie downspouts into underground drainage. It doesn't even necessarily have to drain to the sewer -- our downspouts tie into the schedule 40 PVC around the foundation that eventually empties about twenty feet behind the house. The picture you posted is a terrible (though common) setup, because it saturates the ground right near the house. Put an extension on that thing, at least, people!
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Mar 3, 2018 21:54
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Hubis posted:A dry pond isn't the worst idea. Zika party!
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Mar 3, 2018 23:44
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peanut posted:Zika party! Meh, throw a mosquito dunk in every month or two during the rainy season.
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Mar 4, 2018 03:35
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Friend posted:West of Dallas, TX, North of the dump, South of hell. I live in a cul de sac, there's drainage at the end of the street but that's like four houses down. Hi North Texas friend. I figured you were in North Texas because of the picture. Our front yard does this too and we are at the bottom of a bowl. I keep having to unclog the catch basin because we were not ready for this kind of nonstop rain. We have no drainage solutions other than to the lake and a French drain would be prohibitively expensive and not work for our soil. We also have no curbs, just our yard level with the street and no storm drains, and the city hadn’t done much in a long time. I’d be interested to hear about it when you find a solution. Anyway, at least we had some sun yesterday.
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Mar 4, 2018 17:42
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So maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I haven't seen any other relevant thread. I'm looking to buy a house for super cheap just across the border from a warzone and capitalise on immigrants in tumultuous times. In other words: Turkey. Does anyone have any experience in real estate in Turkey, let alone foreign property investment period? Small things that would have made the process smoother/simpler. I'm very serious about doing this in the next two years, and I'm hoping to go into this knowing enough to not get my peepee slapped and give up.
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Mar 5, 2018 19:17
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Reacon posted:So maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I haven't seen any other relevant thread. Do you speak Turkish?
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Mar 5, 2018 19:33
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Reacon posted:I'm looking to buy a house for super cheap just across the border from a warzone and capitalise on immigrants in tumultuous times. In other words: Turkey. That's nice of you. Reacon posted:So maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I haven't seen any other relevant thread. Is there perhaps an (opportunistic absentee) landlord thread? This one is mostly about DIY.
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Mar 5, 2018 19:49
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Reacon posted:So maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I haven't seen any other relevant thread. You seem like a real nice human being who's well prepared for this endeavor. Your real estate research on dead gay comedy forum somethingawful.com is sure going to make this a breeze.
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Mar 5, 2018 20:00
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That is probably something to ask directly to residents of Turkey. You'll need to prepare for the animosity between Turkish and Kurdish culture. Might I even suggest visiting first to make local contacts? Wild guess, but I expect Kurdish diaspora will be like: wtf I busted my balls to gtfo there and you're planning to buy a guesthouse?!?! peanut fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Mar 5, 2018 |
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Mar 5, 2018 22:49
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peanut posted:oh lord my mother-in-law lent me these curtains because we've just had mismatching lap blankets hanging on the curtain rod for a year but Achievement unlocked!
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Mar 6, 2018 04:45
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peanut posted:Achievement unlocked! Nice! That sort of blood-red has become one of my favourites over the years.
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Mar 6, 2018 07:15
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Jaded Burnout posted:Nice! That sort of blood-red has become one of my favourites over the years. Especially on white IMO
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Mar 6, 2018 17:00
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Hubis posted:Especially on white IMO It can be overdone; it became something of a trend as an accent colour against white walls, which is a shame because if you repeat something enough it starts to feel tacky even when it isn't.
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Mar 6, 2018 17:57
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What would be the best sub to ask how many Syrian refugees it would take to pedal power a bitcoin mining rig?
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