Water barrier

[Greg85mcss]

This isn't exactly garage related but hopefully someone has a solution. My in laws are having issues with basement flooding. Their yard is about an acre with the house about 1/3 of the way back. The rear fence is probably 5-10 feet above the patio with stairs down to the basement. Bad rain and the water runs down the hill filling up that stairway. A friend of theirs fashioned a diverter by running a line of plywood across the yard with stakes almost like a concrete form. I'm trying to figure out a more permanent solution. Thinking about maybe a knee wall around the patio but that's a pretty big investment if it doesn't work. Or maybe just some kind of rolled plastic I could put in around there. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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[DGersic]

Water runs downhill.

Whoever set that up is dumber than water. You’ll need to re-grade it away from the house. Your wall might work. Pictures would help.


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[Jackfre]

You can put a wall up, but depending upon the soil and how you construct the wall the water may well seep under and run to the house anyway. Shoot some grades and find out exactly what you have. It may, probably should, require a re-grade, as proposed. You can dig a drainage ditch around the perimeter of the yard and put some drain tile under gravel to divert the water. I had to open the end of our MA house for water seepage into the basement. I put in the Schedule 10 perfed pipe. Three years later I had to do it again as the light pipe collapsed. I made my own out of sch. 40 pvc and that is still working well.

 

[Greg85mcss]

Unfortunately it is a piss poor design and part of a development, not a house some guy just built on a piece of land. I had thought about drain tile or some kind of ditch. I honestly don't know how much longer she will be there and the place hasn't really been updated since the 80's. That budget would probably be going towards a kitchen or something like that.

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[Bretny]

Post pictures. Behind the fence too. Alot of water problems can be fixed with proper grading or drain pipe.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I honestly don't know how much longer she will be there and the place hasn't really been updated since the 80's. That budget would probably be going towards a kitchen or something like that.

Then it will continue to flood.

Fixing it CORRECTLY will not be cheap !

 

[NUTTSGT]

Like the others said, pics will help.

Off hand without seeing anything, I might suggest a french drain. Is there any place to carry the water to ?

 

[Bondo]

This isn't exactly garage related but hopefully someone has a solution. My in laws are having issues with basement flooding. Their yard is about an acre with the house about 1/3 of the way back. The rear fence is probably 5-10 feet above the patio with stairs down to the basement. Bad rain and the water runs down the hill filling up that stairway. A friend of theirs fashioned a diverter by running a line of plywood across the yard with stakes almost like a concrete form. I'm trying to figure out a more permanent solution. Thinking about maybe a knee wall around the patio but that's a pretty big investment if it doesn't work. Or maybe just some kind of rolled plastic I could put in around there. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Ayuh,..... Just cut a swale across the backyard to move the water around the house,....

Problem solved,....

 

[Greg85mcss]

The only real option would be to route it around the side of the house. The downtown area of the closest city to them has recently had 2 devastating floods attributed to recent over development in the county and insufficient infrastructure. I'll get pictures when I can but it's a bit of a drive.

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[mikegt4]

I had the same problem at a house back in the 1980's and more recently at my son's house. I fixed both with some careful sculpturing of the back yard with some swales and French drains to move the water around the house and out to the street. In both cases I had the equipment needed to do the work which is probably not the OP's situation.