Questions tagged [landscaping]
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Updating the side yard with pavers and planers. Looking for feedback/input on foundation
I’m wanting to fix up my side yard that leads to our patio. The general idea is to use the existing concrete foundation as my base and add sand, pavers, poly, etc (Following a recommended YouTube) to ...
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Water Pooling Against Fence
I have a wooden fence along the property line in my backyard. It sits atop a 6 foot wooden wall. When it rains water pools against the fence at various low spot's. I tried to grade it so the water ...
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How to install steps on a steep hillside
I need to install steps on his steep hillside to access the front yard or the backyard. The clay soil is very compacted. It has been covered in pine straw for several gears. Steps cannot be wider than ...
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Is it possible to plant bushes near my house and protect the foundation from water?
I recently encountered a water issue in my basement, so I am lengthening my current downspout and making sure there is a slope away from my foundation. This makes me wonder how it's possible for ...
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DIY flexible stone-gravel tile (glued on a soft net) over garden?
I'm wondering if I can find a way to glue small pebbles or gravel on 1 to 2 sq ft pieces of soft net or mesh to create a flexible but durable-enough tile-like surface to cover soil.
It would ideally ...
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Is this concrete or a natural stone?
I have a sewer pipe the passes through a creek (marked with a white arrow). On the upstream side, there's something that looks either like a natural formation, or some kind of concrete (circled in ...
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Backyard erosion
Our home (and entire neighborhood) was built in 2015. We are the first owners. (As an aside, also first-time homeowners). Since day 1 we have had erosion issues with our backyard. The ground was not ...
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How far ahead of the average last freeze date is it safe to flood buried irrigation pipe?
I have 1.25" black poly buried at a depth of 18" running a 600 foot span under lawn, and coming up on 1" stainless steel risers into spigots at several locations in the yard. The entire ...
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Should I replace the stones I dug up when regrading the garden bed next to my foundation?
I'm in the process of regrading a garden bed adjacent to my foundation to slope it away more from the house. Hopefully this will solve the drainage issue I've been seeing.
As the bed was sloping ...
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Mystery pipe by roadside electrical boxes
There is a wet area in the yard around the electric boxes by the road. I figured I would try to just raise the ground a bit and mulch around them instead of just having soggy grass and found this 4 ...
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Need advice on re-grading garden beds around foundation for better drainage and if I can apply barriers/sealant to mitigate water intrusion
I'm doing some landscaping cleanup for my parents' house - for visualization, this house's surrounding layout is almost identical:
The front and right side of the house is surrounded by lawn and ...
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Is it normal for ground to settle like this, and how can fix it?
Before we bought this house, they repaired/replaced the sewer line out front. Refilling the dirt and replacing part of the sidewalk. They didn't really leave a mound of dirt, but I also don't know how ...
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Drainage issues for a wet basement
We bought an older house, built in ~1950s, in NY (NYC Metro-ish area) in April 2022. Since then we've had frequent issues with decent amounts of water getting into our 95% finished basement. Between 1-...
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Will a second layer of landscape fabric impede water drainage?
We bought a small wooden sandbox. It has no bottom and the entire thing sits on landscape liner.
My questions is:
1. Should I buy another layer of landscape fabric and staple it to the inside of the ...
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Can I dress a crushed rock drainage plane with pea gravel?
My back yard has a lot of 3/4" crushed gravel that was backfilled around my basement foundation. This is intended to keep the clay soil from heaving the foundation up during the rains, and it ...
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