Where your vehicles are parked now... you could put a slab adjacent to the front side of a split level shop/additional living space. This would allow you to expand the usable space with additional structure(s), and still leave a sizable area for drives and parking on the top part of the property. It's a nice "problem" to be faced with! LOL😊 Best of luck.
Hey Dalton, I don't think you need to go to all the work and expense of a retaining wall. Perhaps all that would be needed is to install a couple of gently rolled water breaks cut into the hillside running parallel to the length of your home? Also, maybe place a perforated 4" tile pipe along the perimeter of the foundation wall to help drain accumulated ground water or overflow from plugged gutters. Construction projects always have the little aggravations like inspections or delays, just don't let these drag you down. Look forward to seeing more progress.
Ditch for redirecting water off the hill ASAP. Decide on the final solution later. The ditch should make the water have to overcome a foot of rise to get to the foundation. You'll need the ditch for whatever the final solution is. To footer the wall in (doing a wall) you'll have to go deeper.
Here's an idea that's not a French drain... build a concrete retaining wall between your house and the trees. Lots of examples if you Google it. It's fast and cheap and will last forever if you drive a couple of rebar rods into each bag to tie the whole thing together. Once the wall is high enough, backfill on the side facing the trees to create the swale you need to divert the water.
I like the idea of a swale style ditch along the side of the house. If you can make that work so the bulk of the water flows away from foundation and then add an additional French style drain to catch whatever seeps down through the ground to the house that might be the ticket to fixing that cheaper.
Our tree removal quotes last year ranged from $3-8,000 for one tree overhanging the house. Cash payment and telling them you will take care of the wood after they fell it helps. Midwest location.
I like the trench idea set back from the house. you basically just need to make a channel that diverts water flow around you house like a horse shoe. On the flip side, if you did do a retaining wall you could make a pretty neat patio area with a grill over there. that's a nice view vs the storage units on the other side for a hang out spot.
I get digging trench down on side of house... what about where the water was coming from obv above, but you dig a trench above as well to redirect or the dirt you move add above another way to redirect water
YEP......you need a french ditch straight across the back, and a retainer wall just outside of ghat, so runoff from the fence line hits concrete and routes way off to the outside of the house corners. I'd dump gravel between the wall and the house and just add stepping stones. (Maybe pour concrete about 3 feet tall with 6 ft rebar. Top the upper 3 ft of rebar with cinder blocks?)
Well.....looks like you've got another project for us to watch. You're going to be a master at all things very soon, especially the retaining walls. All great experience & probably not a ton of $$, mostly time. At least you found this out before you had the place all finished and perfect so there IS a bright side to all of this. Can't wait to see how you do it. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
As for the tree....is there a bucket truck you can get access to for a day that will hoist you up enough to start dropping limbs from up high and work your way down until its manageable from the ground?
I could get a lift that could access it but even cutting the branches from the top, they’d fall onto the roof unless i tied each one off and lowered them down. Which would take forever and probably be pretty risky lol
@marchingmoto i agree, very time consuming, but thats usually the rub when trying to save money. Tree surgeons are costly for sure. Keep brainstorming for a way to avoid the tree cut until spring. I like the sound of pushing dirt higher up the hill to start an expansion of the upper terrace already in place! Heres a thought.......what if you dug out the ground up against the foundation, to like a foot below it, all along the back, and put up that rubber water/vapor stuff that people use when they pour basements? Then put all the soil back, then cover with 6 inches of gravel?
You could easily build a simple rock trench.... Do it about 4 feet away from the house, and make it 2 feet wide and about 3 feet deep. Line it and fill it with gravel. You can make a path way and use the gravel as an accent or make a garden bed and turn the soil lots of simple things you can do.. ive done a gravel trench before and it worked perfect with no slope or nothing 👍
This may be a dumb question, but why do you have to fill your bathroom floor with concrete? Could joists be placed with a wood subfloor instead? Then there would always be access to any plumbing underneath.
Concrete trench down the length of the house to the culvert. Use concrete post forms cut in half lengthwise to make a bunch of half pipes all connected. I have no idea if that’d work but it sounds good.
You are not just dealing with surface water runoff in that setup. You are also likely getting groundwater intrusion. As long as the ground immediately surrounding your foundation is higher than it is, you are going to have water and/or moisture problems. Building a couple french drains or surface water diverters might fix "flooding" issues, but they aren't going to correct the moisture problem. Negative grade will destroy your place over time.
Yes Dalton, a swail should cure your drainage issues, I had the same problem years ago after building a garage. I had a big windrow of dirt after backfilling and had a guy come in and contoured my backyard through the trees and drained to the lower area no rock, just used the fill. He cured all my drainage issues in a few hours. Try not to overthink it.😊
Love your house! Your situation is super tricky. I think your best bet is to hire an engineer to design a retaining wall and then hire a landscaping company to build it. This is extremely expensive and would take too long to solve your immediate problem, but it is something that should be done. My old retaining wall collapsed, I hired masons to rebuild it at a cost of $12,000 and it collapsed in a few years. I hired an engineer at a cost of $5,000 to design a wall of special interlocking blocks, and hired an experienced landscaping company for $75,000 to build the wall. My wall is 95 feet long and 8-10 feet tall, so yours may be less. I regret not hiring an engineer in the first place. Maybe just hire the engineer to design and give you the plans. I feel for you because I am not wealthy, and I wish you the best of luck with your home.😃
Yea, that sloping back yard towards the back of the house is a real dilemna. Almost like you gotta make a cement wall next to the house with a drainage to some specific area.
Both those trees are a problem. Safety suggests getting rid of the one and retaining wall vs roots suggests getting rid of both. That would certainly open up that space more. Tree removal companies charge less if they don't have to remove the stump or haul away the tree and debris. Someone could haul it off for firewood for free and stump removal machines are easy to rent.
small idea for you since you have access to pallets why not make a rear box for you flatbed for taken rubbish to the dump. Also French Drain will only take an hour by Backhoe cheapest way for you.
Another project you will master. Get some good advice from landscapers that know about diverting water away from foundations. That will be a fun video to watch too. Hope your winter comes later so you can get your outdoor work done.
Don't know if it would help but a family member who lived in the mountains same set up as yours put a ditch all the way across the back of the house and made a concrete u shape about a foot deep as the water came down the hill went into the ditch went around the house and away and reinforced the foundation and I guess would still be working if the house was still there.
You need a joint venture with Gate City Foundation and Drainage. He is a big believer in pvc drains to help get the water away from the house and prevent clogs. He also likes to cover in gravel if you use french drains like others have mentioned. Definitely going to have to move a lot of earth to get that slope corrected. Need to get that gutter water away from the house as well
Taking out the tree is likely to cost somewhere between $500 on the low end to $1000 on the high end. Not TOO terrible, but not nothing either. You definitely want to have it taken care of professionally. A skilled arborist can safely make any tree fall in any direction they want. Generally having a tree with branches overhanging an asphalt roof is not ideal to begin with. Add that it's leaning, and in the way of a future retaining wall and drainage project and it's a no brainer. The risks of keeping it or trying to do it yourself far outweight the potential cost savings.
My cabin recently survived, barely, 24 downed trees on my property, from a Tornado. I recommend you remove those large trees leaning toward your house. Especially, if they are white oaks. White oaks leaning toward a house are a serious hazard. That limb growth toward your house on one side of the trees puts a substantial force on that side of the trees. The higher up the limbs are the move leverage is applied. You certainly understand the advantage of leverage. Your second idea for the drainage will not likely prevent the possibility of flooding. Your gutters can only handle so much roof runoff. The amount of water overflowing your gutters in a heavy downpour, also needs to be diverted away from your foundation. The ground needs to slope away from your house foundation. I realize it will be a lot of work to fix it correctly, but fixing it right the first time is always going to be better than having to fix it correctly the second time.
Yes I think it’s a god idea to have a tree co quote and remove that tree. On camera it’s hard to see the actual slope. Does that back hill slope to the house and then also toward the corner where the bathroom? I would consider a French Drain across the back toward the Bathroom corner if that is the low point. Plenty of stone depth and fabric and then taper the top of the hill back and not do a wall!🤷🏻♂️ Hard to see how it a actually looks. You will have to have a place for it to go down at bathroom end it will be a good amount of water and if you taper hill back toward field can you grade it away from house with the fill you have? Just a thought.
You should definitely remove the tree. Even if it doesn't fall during your excavation, it will fall after the ground gets saturated in a heavy rain / wind event.
I would remove those two trees above the house,they are at risking the house,Plus those tree are drawing alot of water into the area. . Go back from the house and di that out 3 feet put a french drain in good gravel and then regrade to upper hill in a few terraces.
You are doing so much an you are so busy maybe have someone come in an give you an estimate on what you can do back there . Sometimes you need alittle help ❤
The tree probably needs to come down regardless. It is too close to the house and wont be strong because the roots too close to the house. I would probably just get all 3 of those cut down too. Their shade isnt as useful as it is only early morning sun and more to the north of the house anyway.
That trees not that bad or big of risk, put it on a three year watch list. Just dig a nice drain ditch for French or just crushed rock. Make another ditch or swale on top the ground uphill from the trees.
Bro, good idea to resolve the water issue now cause the 🏠 looks like it is half buried under ground anyways. You should do an outside French drain for the house foundation and the new block fence you will be building.
I don't know much about drainage but I get the concepts you are trying to lay out here. As soon as you put that 4X4 down my first thought was that both those trees probably need to go. They look awful close to where you will be working. This is a guess, but when/if you talk to a tree company you should ask them: 1) how much to remove 1 tree? 2)how much to remove 2 trees? and then 3) how much to remove 3 trees? my thinking to include the other big tree near the retaining wall you built. Not that I'm in any hurry to see you de-forest your land, but those are the three biggest threats to the house. And I'm betting that you would be surprised to find that the cost to remove all three at once probably isn't a lot more than the cost for just one tree because they have the overhead of the first trip and getting all the equipment to the site. I just watched a crew remove a big tree on my neighbor across the street and it only took them 2 hours, so I'm betting from their perspective getting three trees on the same day doesn't add a ton more work.
At least try the swale/berm method first and see what kind of results you get. The work to dig out a little swale between the house and the trees and spoil the excavation on the uphill side of the swale is not wasted even if you have to go bigger later with the wall. The rainfall that the few feet of ground between the house and swale receives will likely not be significant enough to cause a problem even if the the "recommended" grading procedure would be to have it falling away for 10ft.
That is really bad news. Building a wall to keep the water from reaching the house will be less work/trouble than digging a trench deep enough to add some slope away from the house. Because yeah, the trees. Cutting them down isn't a problem if you hire a professional. Alternative #1, consider raising the house. Alternative #2, knock down the house and bring in a mobile home or cabin that you can put on pier and beam that's a foot or two above the water line. Looks like the current house needs a new roof, which will cost you even more money.
I am questioning the project. After this drainage issue. My house got moved into Flood plain. Had to FEMA insurance? That year water came over the foundation flooded the master closet. Oh not fun.
@@christinem3972 I always buy flood insurance, whether I'm in a flood plain or not. The higher your elevation, the cheaper it is. And "100-year" floods now seem to happen every 10 years.
It looks like you are close to me. We recently did a collaboration with Brock at Rockhill Farm. Let me know if you would be interested in doing a project together.
You would think if a licensed plumber was required to do the work they would be allowed to sign off on the inspection. But that’s not how our governments work.
Not an expert but there is no way in hell that gutter is working 100%, I would pull it and replace with a wider one. Can't have the hill+roof pouring water behind house.
Water drainage Please get a pro out. Need get some quotes talk through some ideas. That is a large project. You have no leave. This giant project makes the bathroom nothing. This problem get the pros out toss money at it. You are smart this big problem. All the slopes. How much water coming down the hill. How much water off the roof. The roof gutters need to be repaired to make sure they sloping correctly. You are going to have to dig down the back of house need to waterproof put in drainage to keep the water from coming through the walls. This is project I know you can do. However the time is factor. I don’t know when the rainy season? 2 trees removal my guess is $1000.00 Please Please make some phone calls. Price
Yes I think it’s a god idea to have a tree co quote and remove that tree. On camera it’s hard to see the actual slope. Does that back hill slope to the house and then also toward the corner where the bathroom? I would consider a French Drain across the back toward the Bathroom corner if that is the low point. Plenty of stone depth and fabric and then taper the top of the hill back and not do a wall!🤷🏻♂️ Hard to see how it a actually looks. You will have to have a place for it to go down at bathroom end it will be a good amount of water and if you taper hill back toward field can you grade it away from house with the fill you have? Just a thought.
you are over thinking it. Just dig a wide ditch about 5 foot away from the house. sloping to a nice fall down away. no need for a retaining wall.
Your idea scooping to the top of the hill would be great & leave the trees. Definitely French drain with gravel next to the house.
Hang in there! 😊
Maybe a swale on the hill behind the trees to divert it away from the house. Add a French drain below to catch to rain between the swale and house.
Where your vehicles are parked now... you could put a slab adjacent to the front side of a split level shop/additional living space. This would allow you to expand the usable space with additional structure(s), and still leave a sizable area for drives and parking on the top part of the property.
It's a nice "problem" to be faced with! LOL😊
Best of luck.
Just put in a good French drain. Hope you get the inspection done soon! 🇨🇦❤️
A single ditch should work well enough to direct water around the house. Maybe an additional smaller one halfway up to catch heavy heavy rainfall.
3:50 Pile the leaves onto a tarp and the drag the tarp to where you want to dump the leaves.
What if you stretch the culvert up above the tree so you can avoid cutting it down?
Hey Dalton, I don't think you need to go to all the work and expense of a retaining wall. Perhaps all that would be needed is to install a couple of gently rolled water breaks cut into the hillside running parallel to the length of your home? Also, maybe place a perforated 4" tile pipe along the perimeter of the foundation wall to help drain accumulated ground water or overflow from plugged gutters. Construction projects always have the little aggravations like inspections or delays, just don't let these drag you down. Look forward to seeing more progress.
Ditch for redirecting water off the hill ASAP. Decide on the final solution later. The ditch should make the water have to overcome a foot of rise to get to the foundation. You'll need the ditch for whatever the final solution is.
To footer the wall in (doing a wall) you'll have to go deeper.
Here's an idea that's not a French drain... build a concrete retaining wall between your house and the trees. Lots of examples if you Google it. It's fast and cheap and will last forever if you drive a couple of rebar rods into each bag to tie the whole thing together. Once the wall is high enough, backfill on the side facing the trees to create the swale you need to divert the water.
I like how you talk it all out to us. I hope you have a someone you can talk with face to face also. Continued good luck to you!
I like the idea of a swale style ditch along the side of the house. If you can make that work so the bulk of the water flows away from foundation and then add an additional French style drain to catch whatever seeps down through the ground to the house that might be the ticket to fixing that cheaper.
Our tree removal quotes last year ranged from $3-8,000 for one tree overhanging the house. Cash payment and telling them you will take care of the wood after they fell it helps. Midwest location.
I like the trench idea set back from the house. you basically just need to make a channel that diverts water flow around you house like a horse shoe. On the flip side, if you did do a retaining wall you could make a pretty neat patio area with a grill over there. that's a nice view vs the storage units on the other side for a hang out spot.
I get digging trench down on side of house... what about where the water was coming from obv above, but you dig a trench above as well to redirect or the dirt you move add above another way to redirect water
YEP......you need a french ditch straight across the back, and a retainer wall just outside of ghat, so runoff from the fence line hits concrete and routes way off to the outside of the house corners. I'd dump gravel between the wall and the house and just add stepping stones. (Maybe pour concrete about 3 feet tall with 6 ft rebar. Top the upper 3 ft of rebar with cinder blocks?)
Dalton, winter is coming. the best idea 💡 you have is a dirt berm with rock Chanel 🪨 good luck on the inspection..
Well.....looks like you've got another project for us to watch. You're going to be a master at all things very soon, especially the retaining walls. All great experience & probably not a ton of $$, mostly time. At least you found this out before you had the place all finished and perfect so there IS a bright side to all of this. Can't wait to see how you do it. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
As for the tree....is there a bucket truck you can get access to for a day that will hoist you up enough to start dropping limbs from up high and work your way down until its manageable from the ground?
I could get a lift that could access it but even cutting the branches from the top, they’d fall onto the roof unless i tied each one off and lowered them down. Which would take forever and probably be pretty risky lol
@marchingmoto i agree, very time consuming, but thats usually the rub when trying to save money. Tree surgeons are costly for sure. Keep brainstorming for a way to avoid the tree cut until spring. I like the sound of pushing dirt higher up the hill to start an expansion of the upper terrace already in place! Heres a thought.......what if you dug out the ground up against the foundation, to like a foot below it, all along the back, and put up that rubber water/vapor stuff that people use when they pour basements? Then put all the soil back, then cover with 6 inches of gravel?
You could easily build a simple rock trench.... Do it about 4 feet away from the house, and make it 2 feet wide and about 3 feet deep. Line it and fill it with gravel. You can make a path way and use the gravel as an accent or make a garden bed and turn the soil lots of simple things you can do.. ive done a gravel trench before and it worked perfect with no slope or nothing 👍
Make sure you use round river rock or the largest pea gravel you can find lol
This may be a dumb question, but why do you have to fill your bathroom floor with concrete? Could joists be placed with a wood subfloor instead? Then there would always be access to any plumbing underneath.
Concrete trench down the length of the house to the culvert. Use concrete post forms cut in half lengthwise to make a bunch of half pipes all connected. I have no idea if that’d work but it sounds good.
Going back to your roots - retaining walls. Looking forward to seeing how you solve it. Solid videos!
A significant French drain makes a lot more sense.
Man i was just coming here to comment that same thing.
You are not just dealing with surface water runoff in that setup. You are also likely getting groundwater intrusion. As long as the ground immediately surrounding your foundation is higher than it is, you are going to have water and/or moisture problems. Building a couple french drains or surface water diverters might fix "flooding" issues, but they aren't going to correct the moisture problem. Negative grade will destroy your place over time.
And yes, cut the trees down .. the price will likely be closer to astronomical than you want it to be
Yes Dalton, a swail should cure your drainage issues, I had the same problem years ago after building a garage. I had a big windrow of dirt after backfilling and had a guy come in and contoured my backyard through the trees and drained to the lower area no rock, just used the fill. He cured all my drainage issues in a few hours. Try not to overthink it.😊
Love your house! Your situation is super tricky. I think your best bet is to hire an engineer to design a retaining wall and then hire a landscaping company to build it. This is extremely expensive and would take too long to solve your immediate problem, but it is something that should be done. My old retaining wall collapsed, I hired masons to rebuild it at a cost of $12,000 and it collapsed in a few years. I hired an engineer at a cost of $5,000 to design a wall of special interlocking blocks, and hired an experienced landscaping company for $75,000 to build the wall. My wall is 95 feet long and 8-10 feet tall, so yours may be less. I regret not hiring an engineer in the first place. Maybe just hire the engineer to design and give you the plans. I feel for you because I am not wealthy, and I wish you the best of luck with your home.😃
Yea, that sloping back yard towards the back of the house is a real dilemna. Almost like you gotta make a cement wall next to the house with a drainage to some specific area.
Both those trees are a problem. Safety suggests getting rid of the one and retaining wall vs roots suggests getting rid of both. That would certainly open up that space more. Tree removal companies charge less if they don't have to remove the stump or haul away the tree and debris. Someone could haul it off for firewood for free and stump removal machines are easy to rent.
small idea for you since you have access to pallets why not make a rear box for you flatbed for taken rubbish to the dump. Also French Drain will only take an hour by Backhoe cheapest way for you.
Another project you will master. Get some good advice from landscapers that know about diverting water away from foundations. That will be a fun video to watch too. Hope your winter comes later so you can get your outdoor work done.
Don't know if it would help but a family member who lived in the mountains same set up as yours put a ditch all the way across the back of the house and made a concrete u shape about a foot deep as the water came down the hill went into the ditch went around the house and away and reinforced the foundation and I guess would still be working if the house was still there.
You need a joint venture with Gate City Foundation and Drainage. He is a big believer in pvc drains to help get the water away from the house and prevent clogs. He also likes to cover in gravel if you use french drains like others have mentioned.
Definitely going to have to move a lot of earth to get that slope corrected. Need to get that gutter water away from the house as well
The comments regarding a swail are correct. Keep it easy. Good luck!
Taking out the tree is likely to cost somewhere between $500 on the low end to $1000 on the high end. Not TOO terrible, but not nothing either. You definitely want to have it taken care of professionally. A skilled arborist can safely make any tree fall in any direction they want. Generally having a tree with branches overhanging an asphalt roof is not ideal to begin with. Add that it's leaning, and in the way of a future retaining wall and drainage project and it's a no brainer. The risks of keeping it or trying to do it yourself far outweight the potential cost savings.
To save on trash removal cost, put one bag into your residential trash pick up, one or 2 bags a week, until it's all gone.
My cabin recently survived, barely, 24 downed trees on my property, from a Tornado. I recommend you remove those large trees leaning toward your house. Especially, if they are white oaks. White oaks leaning toward a house are a serious hazard. That limb growth toward your house on one side of the trees puts a substantial force on that side of the trees. The higher up the limbs are the move leverage is applied. You certainly understand the advantage of leverage.
Your second idea for the drainage will not likely prevent the possibility of flooding. Your gutters can only handle so much roof runoff. The amount of water overflowing your gutters in a heavy downpour, also needs to be diverted away from your foundation. The ground needs to slope away from your house foundation. I realize it will be a lot of work to fix it correctly, but fixing it right the first time is always going to be better than having to fix it correctly the second time.
What about French drains rather than all that work building a wall and removing the trees?
What about a nice retaining wall with a French drain and then an outdoor area beside the house for a BBQ and table an chairs
Yes I think it’s a god idea to have a tree co quote and remove that tree. On camera it’s hard to see the actual slope. Does that back hill slope to the house and then also toward the corner where the bathroom? I would consider a French Drain across the back toward the Bathroom corner if that is the low point. Plenty of stone depth and fabric and then taper the top of the hill back and not do a wall!🤷🏻♂️ Hard to see how it a actually looks. You will have to have a place for it to go down at bathroom end it will be a good amount of water and if you taper hill back toward field can you grade it away from house with the fill you have? Just a thought.
Lots of decisions but it seems like you are getting good advice. You will sort it out and it adds to your learning curve🤞🤞😉🫶
You should definitely remove the tree. Even if it doesn't fall during your excavation, it will fall after the ground gets saturated in a heavy rain / wind event.
I would remove those two trees above the house,they are at risking the house,Plus those tree are drawing alot of water into the area. . Go back from the house and di that out 3 feet put a french drain in good gravel and then regrade to upper hill in a few terraces.
Don’t sit in the leaves you will end up with ticks on you which carry Lyme
You are doing so much an you are so busy maybe have someone come in an give you an estimate on what you can do back there . Sometimes you need alittle help ❤
The tree probably needs to come down regardless. It is too close to the house and wont be strong because the roots too close to the house. I would probably just get all 3 of those cut down too. Their shade isnt as useful as it is only early morning sun and more to the north of the house anyway.
Repeat after me: Stihl BH86. Heck with a rake lol
BG 86 I meant. Can’t type I guess
That trees not that bad or big of risk, put it on a three year watch list.
Just dig a nice drain ditch for French or just crushed rock. Make another ditch or swale on top the ground uphill from the trees.
Bro, good idea to resolve the water issue now cause the 🏠 looks like it is half buried under ground anyways. You should do an outside French drain for the house foundation and the new block fence you will be building.
Cutting down a tree is very expensive.
Kinda depends on where you are.
I don't know much about drainage but I get the concepts you are trying to lay out here. As soon as you put that 4X4 down my first thought was that both those trees probably need to go. They look awful close to where you will be working. This is a guess, but when/if you talk to a tree company you should ask them: 1) how much to remove 1 tree? 2)how much to remove 2 trees? and then 3) how much to remove 3 trees? my thinking to include the other big tree near the retaining wall you built. Not that I'm in any hurry to see you de-forest your land, but those are the three biggest threats to the house. And I'm betting that you would be surprised to find that the cost to remove all three at once probably isn't a lot more than the cost for just one tree because they have the overhead of the first trip and getting all the equipment to the site. I just watched a crew remove a big tree on my neighbor across the street and it only took them 2 hours, so I'm betting from their perspective getting three trees on the same day doesn't add a ton more work.
ask someone who does french drains
I think you could just trench it. Lay gravel in the bottom. I don't think it has to be complicated.
French ditch, yep, that'll work.
6:27 A retaining wall would kill those 2 trees.
At least try the swale/berm method first and see what kind of results you get. The work to dig out a little swale between the house and the trees and spoil the excavation on the uphill side of the swale is not wasted even if you have to go bigger later with the wall. The rainfall that the few feet of ground between the house and swale receives will likely not be significant enough to cause a problem even if the the "recommended" grading procedure would be to have it falling away for 10ft.
That is really bad news. Building a wall to keep the water from reaching the house will be less work/trouble than digging a trench deep enough to add some slope away from the house. Because yeah, the trees. Cutting them down isn't a problem if you hire a professional. Alternative #1, consider raising the house. Alternative #2, knock down the house and bring in a mobile home or cabin that you can put on pier and beam that's a foot or two above the water line. Looks like the current house needs a new roof, which will cost you even more money.
I am questioning the project. After this drainage issue.
My house got moved into Flood plain. Had to FEMA insurance? That year water came over the foundation flooded the master closet. Oh not fun.
@@christinem3972 I always buy flood insurance, whether I'm in a flood plain or not. The higher your elevation, the cheaper it is. And "100-year" floods now seem to happen every 10 years.
11:04 You're in shape. Buy a tree climbing kit and cut up the branches down first, and then cut the trunk in sections. Or rent a man lift and do it.
It looks like you are close to me. We recently did a collaboration with Brock at Rockhill Farm. Let me know if you would be interested in doing a project together.
Watch out for ticks and Lyme disease!
Oh my! I laughed so hard! No need to apologize! But howwww cuteee!
Definitely going to have some root issues
Unless you're planning on cutting down that tree where you burned, I would not burn on top of the roots or near the trunk.
You would think if a licensed plumber was required to do the work they would be allowed to sign off on the inspection. But that’s not how our governments work.
Not an expert but there is no way in hell that gutter is working 100%, I would pull it and replace with a wider one. Can't have the hill+roof pouring water behind house.
Water drainage Please get a pro out. Need get some quotes talk through some ideas. That is a large project. You have no leave. This giant project makes the bathroom nothing. This problem get the pros out toss money at it. You are smart this big problem. All the slopes. How much water coming down the hill. How much water off the roof. The roof gutters need to be repaired to make sure they sloping correctly.
You are going to have to dig down the back of house need to waterproof put in drainage to keep the water from coming through the walls. This is project I know you can do. However the time is factor.
I don’t know when the rainy season?
2 trees removal my guess is $1000.00
Please
Please make some phone calls. Price
Yes I think it’s a god idea to have a tree co quote and remove that tree. On camera it’s hard to see the actual slope. Does that back hill slope to the house and then also toward the corner where the bathroom? I would consider a French Drain across the back toward the Bathroom corner if that is the low point. Plenty of stone depth and fabric and then taper the top of the hill back and not do a wall!🤷🏻♂️ Hard to see how it a actually looks. You will have to have a place for it to go down at bathroom end it will be a good amount of water and if you taper hill back toward field can you grade it away from house with the fill you have? Just a thought.