So my front porch was obviously built to drain to the steps, 3 out of 4 corners gently slope towards there. The problem is due to foundation settling or something similar the forth corner does not drain and instead gets a small pool of water every time it rains or we wash. How should I go about fixing this so water drains to the stairs
Would the dirt and mosquito problem be adequately addressed if you drilled a one inch weep hole in the low concrete porch wall, at porch level outward with a gentle slope down? Now the water would drain out into the dirt on the far side of that wall
Well there's no magic wand for that other than removing pavers and correcting the grade that they have been set on. For anything to properly drain it needs a minimum of 1/4" slope. So anything less than that is going to experience ponding... especially on an irregular surface that's in the shade or protected from wind.
A weep hole through the wall could be a solution but may not be a good idea if that isn't a solid poured wall.
A solid concrete wall would actually be better. The concern is allowing water into the center of the brick wall where it could freeze and break the wall apart.
Hello Guys,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to handle this sunken concrete. I am one of the four houses (built by the same developer) with sunken concrete; one of my neighbors completely redo the floor twice, and the concrete is still sunk. Now he has given up; he doesn't know how to fix it in a way so it will not sink again. The first time, he just went with 4" concrete with wire mesh and the second time, he went with paver blocks.
I am new to this house and don't exactly know why the concrete keeps sinking. The rain water from that concrete area doesn't go into the city storm drain. There is some kind of concrete manhole underneath, someone told me about 4x6'. Could it be the manhole is too heavy and it keep sinking or somehow water from the manhole leak out and settle the dirt even more?
Some GC said just remove the existing concrete compact the dirt add some gravel then wire mesh with concrete will do the job. But I think this won't be sufficient.
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Any have advice or experience dealing with sunken concrete will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Tom
Hello DIY members -
I want to patch the crack near bottom of step in the attached photo. A few questions:
I went to the Home Depot concrete isle and there are calk-gun tubes of some products that would work but I think it would not match the existing older concrete, and there are lots of bags of various brand / types of mortar or concrete that I could get and mix.
1) Can anyone suggest which would be better to match what is there?
2) It seems like crack should be filled first with something so the patching material has backing - what would this usually be filled with?
thanks a lot
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03-24-23, 03:34 PM
