Soon after we moved in we noticed a sloping issue in our backyard patio area. We didn't know why the yard was sloped so crazy. All the rain water was basically flowing toward the house in one area. It's important to remember when doing any type of projects in your yard that the builders build the lot with a slope. A sublet tilt that causes rain water to flow away from your house and into the street. People often have issues when remodeling their yards because they forget or don't know this important information and disrupt the slope.
(This is the picture from HAR. It's hard to tell but the area with bald spot of dirt is much higher, like a little hill, which was messing up the flow of the yard. All back yards have a slope that leads water away from the house. In this case the water was being pushed back into the corner. Also there were no gutters which added to the issue. So we installed gutters which protect your foundation from damage.)
(Picture of water collection)
(More water collection)
(Yikes, right?!?! As you can see we tried digging an opening which only made the situation worse because of the sloping issues.)
(Scary for a woman, seriously. But the guys knew what to do.)
(My dad was a surveyor for a few years, also worked as a diver and civil engineer, so this was nothing for him to figure out. He layed out wooden stakes and strings across the yard to determine the slop. Then started cutting and scalping the ground. We used the top grass parts as sod in dead areas of the yard *smart idea*)
(My hubs and dad digging out the high parts and using the dirt to fill in the low area that was filling with water)
After the digging and moving of dirt was finished we let the ground settle, then bought some sod to fill in the scalped area. We had professionals install gutters. When all that was finished we started our next project....a relaxing fountain area.
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