this issue has been bothering me ever since I moved into this house (8 yrs ago). Here are some pics: https://imgur.com/a/IbFxT6C
My driveway slopes towards my house, but short of the garage, the water get channeled over to the side of the house as shown....it then creates a mud pit at my gate. This is also where I have to have my garbage cans, and they have to be behind the gate (HOA), so dragging them through the mud each week is a PITA.
That small square of driveway I am guessing is where people put their one trashcan back in the day before recycling and larger city owned bins, but it is kind of useless.
My first inclination is to put some sort of a catch basin at the dip of the concrete and then run the runoff underground out to the back yard. Problem is, right at that gate is where utility (phone and cable for certain) are buried, and they run diagonally out and up to the street. Our cable line is now exposed (you can just see it coming out from under the driveway funnel, curving toward the house, in that second pic).
The total drop from driveway to back of house is approx 3' 4", and of course I have AC units to contend with.
Here is what I'd like to do, but willing to listen to other options:
1). move the gate back towards AC units 3-4'....this give me more room to work with for...item 2
2). Have a slab similar to the lone square one for two cans, up agains the fence line that will sit in front of the moved gate.
3). have a small fence right at driveway edge, over to fence line that covers up the garbage cans to satisfy the HOA
4). have the ability to roll the cans on concrete the whole way out and up the driveway.
5). somehow catch the water coming from the runoff and not let it erode that area.
6). maybe tier the side of the house, totalling about 3-4 tiers, and trying to control things that way.
I think the easiest thing to do is concrete that whole area (over the utility lines) and then move the catch basin further back at the newly moved gate, but I just don't know what I am setting myself up for if I go the conrete route..
thoughts appreciated, TIA.
My driveway slopes towards my house, but short of the garage, the water get channeled over to the side of the house as shown....it then creates a mud pit at my gate. This is also where I have to have my garbage cans, and they have to be behind the gate (HOA), so dragging them through the mud each week is a PITA.
That small square of driveway I am guessing is where people put their one trashcan back in the day before recycling and larger city owned bins, but it is kind of useless.
My first inclination is to put some sort of a catch basin at the dip of the concrete and then run the runoff underground out to the back yard. Problem is, right at that gate is where utility (phone and cable for certain) are buried, and they run diagonally out and up to the street. Our cable line is now exposed (you can just see it coming out from under the driveway funnel, curving toward the house, in that second pic).
The total drop from driveway to back of house is approx 3' 4", and of course I have AC units to contend with.
Here is what I'd like to do, but willing to listen to other options:
1). move the gate back towards AC units 3-4'....this give me more room to work with for...item 2
2). Have a slab similar to the lone square one for two cans, up agains the fence line that will sit in front of the moved gate.
3). have a small fence right at driveway edge, over to fence line that covers up the garbage cans to satisfy the HOA
4). have the ability to roll the cans on concrete the whole way out and up the driveway.
5). somehow catch the water coming from the runoff and not let it erode that area.
6). maybe tier the side of the house, totalling about 3-4 tiers, and trying to control things that way.
I think the easiest thing to do is concrete that whole area (over the utility lines) and then move the catch basin further back at the newly moved gate, but I just don't know what I am setting myself up for if I go the conrete route..
thoughts appreciated, TIA.