We are having some drainage issues when it rains. The water has been running in the wrong places so we hired Brian and all his "Tonka toys" to help us out.
You have to call a company called Blue Stake and they contact the water, gas, electric and cable companies. They come out to check if you can dig.
We needed to put two culverts in….one in front of the house across the "old" dirt driveway, and the other on the south side of the house.
Culverts cost $250 each. We bought used ones so we saved a little bit of money.
Brian is digging a ditch for the culvert and also moving a lot of this rock as we don't need such a wide rocked area. We are actually going to plant some trees here and "erase" the extra driveway.
This is the south side of the house. The water was running down the slope and into the garden area. Brian dug a ditch and put in the culvert. Lupe rocked the ditch.
Pretty much done. We have some extra dirt on the garden side but we can spread it around. We need to add more dirt to some of the garden beds thanks to Argo. And we have to re-bark the area around the beds. Home Depot was having a sale on bark so we ordered 60 bags.
The rock area in front of the house is getting smaller…..
and smaller. We now have to get some crushed granite and spread it around. We ran an irrigation line as we want to plant some Cottonwood trees, a Weeping Willow and a Honey Locust tree in this area. We also got some Forsythia. Photinia and a Lilac bush for a section on the west side of the driveway.
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