It was Peter's Birthday. I woke up to go to work at 3:30 am and it was raining REALLY hard. We ended up having 2 inches of water in front of the garage and about an inch of water inside the garage. So, as much as I hated to wake Peter up at that god awful hour, I had to. So began our drain tile project (which we intended on starting in the spring). We had 7 inches of rain fall on that day and the current system just couldn't keep up to it. Thankfully the water hadn't breached into the front door yet, but it was about half an inch shy of doing that. Had it gotten in, our renovation to the family room would have been ruined.
So, this was the beginning trench just to try and get the water away from the house
This photo was taken around 11:30 am when I had come back home from work and sat outside for a few hours with our shop vac sucking up water and dumping it into our trench just to try and get ahead of all the rain.
LOTS of digging was involved in this project
We finally get to the point that we have dug down deep enough to lay the new drain tile. The old tile that we found was in poor shape and all plugged with mud. They never surrounded it with gravel and did it properly or there would have never been a problem.
We have different pipes for different drainage issues. One is for the water coming from the roof, and the other is for ground water. We ended up finding the old drain tile that ran through the back yard and cleaned it out and tied into it after we found that it was running well. It drains past the fence in the back and into the creek that runs behind the house.
We now have the tiles in and gravel around the house. Gravity now takes care of any water issues that we have instead of having to rely on a silly little sump pump. We also installed a California drain across the driveway to catch all the water that flows down from the main road. I will never again worry about the rain.
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