Seeking advice on side of house landscaping - with images
Hi all, so we pulled out a rotten deck on the side of our house and realized the ground below it had a very poor slope. I've finally got the water moving away from the house and then to the back yard into the grass (downhill), but now I want to finish the project before winter.
Below is an image of my overall plan, but I've never really worked with clay. Should there by a layer of something between the clay, landscape barrier and river rock?
What I am unsure of is whether the stones will just slowly silt up and sink into the clay - do I need a soil layer between the clay and cloth?
Orange=Slab path, green=side garden, grey=1-3" river rock
The pic above shows the current state; right now the water flows down into the red drainage ditch will also act as a barrier to the side garden.
This is similar to what we had in mind - rock layer with slabs on top, and a garden against the fence.
I was going to just do a french drain instead of a ditch, but the clay run off will have it clogged constantly I think so I'm going to leave it open so I can clear it easily by hand when required.
If you're not planting anything in the rock, you could use landscape fabric or plastic under the rock (I would use plastic to divert more water into the drain). Regardless, you don't want dirt on top of the fabric, as your rock would sink into that.
Is that downspout connected to an underground pipe? That downspout(s) is where the vast majority of water will come from, if it is a big ditch shouldn't be needed, just some slope away from house and towards the front/back. Fabric allows water to pass, plastic does not!
I want to build a sandpit for my kids. After waching yt for ideas I decided to use 5"x10" (or similar if not possible) wood blocks and some lag nuts. The size would be 8ft x 4ft.
Nothing on the bottom, just weed fabric.
I'm asking for advice what exactly should I buy.
Timber/pressure treated/green ?
I know nothing about wood.
Which lug nuts?
house has lots of maple oak etc tree shade, front slate walkway is like ice a couple days after rain or when foggy, I think for that I'm just going to spray wetand-forget which should kill and existing moss/mildew and hopefully hinder much new regrowth for a while, I mean that's about all I can do, I can't like add some material on top of the slate.
There's also a set of very slippery older wood steps. Originally there is 3 slats of treated wood about 1/5" wide and 1/2" thick Three of them going longways along each step but they're also slippery.
I know there's glue-on sandpaper traction tape but I've used them elsewhere and they don't stay on for too long, hoping for something more permanent. I don't want something tacky like screwing a thousand screws into the steps and leaving the heads up a tad. Any suggestions, or just remove the 3 thin strips and glue down some traction tape?
11-12-22, 02:06 PM
Seeking advice on side of house landscaping - with images
