I moved into this house 11ish (built in 1989) years ago and always known that landscape bed on one side of house seemed awful high but never paid much attention to it. We had a very large tree that was in the landscape bed removed and now looking at lower the beds. By my rough measuring from where the gas line comes out, my basement wall is likely 4-5" below grade. I have 3 rows of brick buried in dirt and roughly the top of the bottom row is equivalent to the top of my basement wall. Strange thing is that I've never had water issues in this area except a month or so ago. We ended up having a little bit of water in the basement but I thought it was from the recently installed front door that is leaking as well. It was during a storm where it rained horizontal on this part of the house like I've never seen before. So now I'm thinking water might have came over the wall instead.
Problem that I'm likely going to run into is that if the landscape bed is taken down to a proper level I'll likely be negative grade towards the house. I'm thinking that I'm going to need to find someone with experience that can get creative. Probably not the best solution but maybe a water barrier on the brick and make sure I have a good grade away from the house.
Problem that I'm likely going to run into is that if the landscape bed is taken down to a proper level I'll likely be negative grade towards the house. I'm thinking that I'm going to need to find someone with experience that can get creative. Probably not the best solution but maybe a water barrier on the brick and make sure I have a good grade away from the house.