Garden Floor Flooding Issue
We own a 3-story 2-family frame house. The steps leading into the garden level of the house(the access for our tenant) tend to collect water during heavy rainfall. Rain pools on the bottom step, which has a flat metal lip all around, and then leaks around the doorframe on both sides. There is no drain…
We own a 3-story 2-family frame house. The steps leading into the garden level of the house(the access for our tenant) tend to collect water during heavy rainfall. Rain pools on the bottom step, which has a flat metal lip all around, and then leaks around the doorframe on both sides. There is no drain on the inside so, this summer, with heavy rains and then high temps, mold arrived, sheetrock on interior wall is damaged, etc. We want to repair the cosmetics but also solve this draining issue. One contractor suggested a “dry sewer” where he would install a drain that would carry water into the soil under the street, rather than hooking up with the main sewer line, which is a much bigger job. Another contractor suggested adding a taller lip on the bottom step to prevent water from leaking into the house before we vacumn it out (we need to buy a dry-vac). But a lip might cause our tenant to trip and fall! Any suggestions? Thanks!
The dry sewer may case errosion problems, and undermine your stoop.
I’ve done renos like that before and it’s a big job to open it up and hook into the drains.
Perhaps you may want to put a well in. Just a cemented hole that holds a container and has a grill over it. It will require you to lift the grill and empty the container on a regular basis ( in wet weather), but it will be less disruptive to the tenant and a quick fix.
I have a simular problem. I put a temperedglass canopy over my entrance. Simple and flat and cut a flap in my stoop door that I leave open in dry weather and dry it out.