Tangental Projects

 I'm still working on the west side drainage.  So many roots...  But there is some progress.  At the down side of the drainage trench I have a large obstacle.  The Shed.  Its always been there, and I have been working around it for decades.  So, I figure I can make a trench around it.  Inside of that process I found that I also needed to shore up the foundation for the shed, which is another task in this very same spot.

 The whole of the shed and the area around it have largely been untouched.  There is a big Cedar tree on the North side, and there was a very large Maple of the South side of the shed.  There was also a Pine tree growing out of the foundation in front of the shed.  These roots are all cross woven under the shed.  So I've been taking out some roots while excavating the footings for the retaining wall.  To the left is the trench for the drainage pipe.

 The original plan was to have the retaining wall and the drainage trench in front of the shed.  Well, the choice of stones for the retaining wall left no room for a trench drain here.  We need two things in this space that holds only one.  I don't want to look at a drain, or trip over it either, so we'll change the trench to a pipe, and bury it beneath the retaining wall footing.  I made good progress on the trench last weekend.  Then over the past couple days I have been working on the North face retaining wall footing, and removing roots.

 I have a thin sliver of land in front of the shed to do both of these projects.  The East and North sides of the foundation have soil eroding under the foundation.  So I had to decide weather I wanted to scrap the shed altogether, or fix it up again.  In the middle of the drainage project I decided I should do the tangental project simultaneously.

 Now lets back up for a second.  This is a drainage project, hydraulics.  So I have to deal with drain slope in order to get the water where I want it to go.  Then, also, in relation to the drain pipe, I need the retaining wall at a specific depth, and some head space between the retaining wall footing and the top of the drain pipe.  At a auspicious place on the foundation we can calculate the depth required of the trench for the drain pipe.  Then we can get the pipe in the right place, and everything after that is re-assembly.  Then there are just a couple small obstacles left, besides the roots.  There are two sprinkler heads directly in the path where I want to run the drain pipe.  Maybe those are more legitimate hydraulic projects.  Happy Computing...