I thought about it but they'd have to be 100+ feet long. The problem with our yard was that the ground sloped away from the house to a trough maybe 25 feet out. The water hit that trough and rolled right back to the house. Once I filled the trough we got way less intrusion. Now we need another layer to raise the slope over where the trough used to be. Last time I just filled the low spot, now I need raise the level at the house. -Curt
From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fixing floors On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Having gone around our house with the inspector I'm inclined to agree. > Also for stuff like water intrusion in the basement he was just > wrong. "Oh this basement doesn't look like its ever had any water." > they had painted it. Now having lived there I can see how the yard was > sloped all wrong, the first couple years we lived there we had bad > water in the basement. 5 yards of soil later and we have much less. 5 > more yards and we should have none... -Curt Don't forget French drains. See http://www.askthebuilder.com/search-results/?q=French%20drains (and skip the Ads by Google section) Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com