Your Weather, 2024

[Rhodie Ranch]

Massive amounts of rain forecasted all week. Since hubs didn't want to put in a french drain along the side of the metal shop, it WILL flood again in there, like it did last winter. The downslope normally drains well, but if there is alot of rain all at once, it seeps into the shop. OH WELL....

 

[digitS']

My "French drain" was the easiest thing imaginable although it might not be adequate for your needs, @Rhodie Ranch . It primarily came about because I had a lot of those bricks with holes in them and, yes, a wet basement floor along the west side wall, primarily during times of snowmelt.

After digging a narrow and shallow trench, I set a plastic roof gutter in the ground. At the end, I dug down about two feet and a filled the bottom of the hole with a few large boulders. I covered them with some of the soil and covered the gutter with those bricks.

It worked. But, about 15 years later the house was re-roofed and I had the contractor put a roof gutter along that side. The drain is still there. It isn't really needed but the bricks form a border for the lawn with wood chips against the basement wall.

Steve

 

[Dahlia]

We have your snow/rain this morning, Ducks'.

It is 36⁰f (so, 2⁰C above freezing). The snow is on the lawn but, really, nowhere else. Several hours before sunrise and with 90% sky cover and an 80% chance of rain for the day, won't amount to much.

digitS'

We got some heavy winds yesterday and last night accompanied by rain, but now it is just calm and cloudy.

 

[flowerbug]

for about 20yrs our garage door would not keep the rain water from seeping in, the cement contractor did not angle the lip downwards to keep the water out. so one year i finally got some mason cement and made a sloped lip downwards to where the garage door came down.

it is not 100% reliable if we get a really heavy driving wind (the garage door faces the west so that is the place we do most likely get winds from as they come whipping up the driveway) some water may still come through but at least it is rarely enough to worry about.

after the cement was cured i got some good garage floor paint and put several coats over it. so far it has held up ok.

oh, yes, the current version is the third attempt. the first one was a small ridge which was just not enough to keep much of anything out. the 2nd attempt did not stick to the slab even with my cleaning, grinding and other prep, the last attempt i mixed some kind of flexible binder in with the cement.