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Arkady, re terlet, I am having a temper tantrum in reality. I couldn’t take out the bulb mechanism since the bolt was in so tight and despite a few minutes yanking on it with a wrench STILL couldn’t get it off when I accidentally really did a number on my finger (I think most accidents happen when people are pissed off).
Re the French drain, sounds very logical, but 60 percent of my backyard (and the part next to the house) is paver brick patio (elevated vs floor level) or cement near the door. The “dirt part” is away from the house. I wonder if removing part of the paver brick with some drain like device would be good.
Well, thanks for your ideas. Obviously I need to work this through.
“(I refuse to call it Citifield)”
Easy to call it Citifield on rainy days when they roll out the TARP. But yes, go Mets, and glad you had a great time Montrose.
Everybody talks about the vuvuzelas but nobody does anything about them.
Arkady, the french drain has to lead somewhere.
That said, replacing the last few courses of pavers, close to the house, with a drain-like surface and digging down and lining with stone might work to catch enough of all of it. But a french drain has to actually “drain” somewhere.
You could put a large 3′ wide by 3′ deep catch basin in the yard with the botttom lined with gravel.
Probably getting the drain snaked is a good idea – there is a rainpipe about the same diameter as well. One issue is “matting” over the drain, which is what happens when the debris flows from all over the yard when we have those deluge like rains. There might be some drain cover which might be better than another (or something which blocks the flow of water (and debris) initially away from the drain.
Tks.
dona – A french drain (a.k.a. soakaway) is your best bet. You dig a trench from side-to-side of the garden & 8 to 10 feet deep & 2 feet wide at the bottom – 10 or 12 feet out from the foundation of your house. Put a pierced p.v.c. pipe at the bottom & cover that w/ landscape fabric. Pile in stones – large at the bottom & decreasing to pea-grit at the top. Trench can get very narrow towards the top – even as small as 6 inches across but spanning the entire garden. You can then brick over the top so it’s the same as the rest of your patio.
You shouldn’t have needed to disassemble the entire fill pipe of the terlet – just replace the arm/bulb assembly or, if that were too rusted, replace the current cap on top of the fill.
Oh yeah, before I forget: SUCK IT, PHILLIES! Ha Ha!
Last night the Newshour had four main stories:
1. The oil disaster, no end in sight
2. Karzai wants to settle with the Taliban, Americans can’t win
3. The American economy is just like Greece’s
4. Higher education is unsustainable
FINALLY an EXCITING soccer match!
http://tinyurl.com/2bmj7vo