Hi All, My house is built off grade. I'll reference the attached photos. The satellite photo shows the location of the valley I want to drain (red arrow) and where to drain to (green arrow which is my drive way that slopes to the street). Due to a gas line and other issues creating an underground type of drainage system in the side yard shown in Photo 2 is not doable. The house was built in 1941 and has never had gutters. Clearly it has survived. However, the crawl space is getting musty and the brick wall between the foundation piers, blocked from view in picture by plants is showing signs of compromise. The third photo is just another angle and shows how the water is to drain. My idea is to remove the plants and build a raised bed that I will line with pond liner. Fill the bed with gravel and direct the drainage to a pipe that exits the bed and drains onto the driveway. I measure flow off the valley in a decent rain and it was running at about 5 gallons per 40 seconds. Is this a stupid idea? Suggestions? Could also do a barrel type of arrangement. The graven is to hide the pipe and cut back on splashing. [ATTACH]82175[/ATTACH][ATTACH]82176[/ATTACH][ATTACH]82177[/ATTACH]

So my house is in the middle of a roofing nightmare. We discovered mold due to improper ventilation, the house only had ONE gable vent. Attic was remediated, and a ridge vent and front soffits were installed. Roofer did not put soffits on the back for unknown reasons. Several months later I found that the soffits are not connected to the attic, as we have no baffles. We will not be doing soffits because our house is an old cape and baffles cannot be placed without tearing down walls, as the roof is over 8 feet down the front. Its not worth it until we need a new roof. So here's the problem, one roofer said put in a second gable, close the ridge. Another said just add a power vent. We've gotten advice to close the one remaining Gable, to add a second, to keep the ridge vent, close the ridge vent. I'm going nuts. The latest recommendation is because our attic is small, install a second gable vent. Once that's done, I guess the question is, do we then close the ridge vent, or add a power vent for backup? Can you have a ridge vent with two gable vents? If we close the ridge vent, will two gable vents be enough or should we had a power vent that kicks on when humidity rises? I'm pulling out my hair, we've had multiple expert opinions and each one is different. Even just had a roofer tell us he's seen many soffit/ridge vents with mold in the attic because the wind does not blow correctly over some houses and the passive air movement does not work...yet most people tend to say that is the best way to go. It's just not an option at this time.