Absolutely not.

You will need to create the drainage by digging lower than the
house out away from the house. There should be 6" of concrete
showing below the bottom of the siding. The grade should then
fall away an additional 6" in the first 10 feet. This foot of
fall will establish the absolute highest point of your valley.
You will need to establish somewhere for the water to go from
there. If you cannot make grade to the street or some point lower
than you, might look for a storm system in your area to pipe to.
This would probably be owned by your municipality and I'm sure
they will require a licensed utility contractor to make the
connection after the system is engineered (read between the lines:
expensive). If you are rural, you can do your own piping if you
can make daylight somewhere.

Look up dry wells, sump pumps, and French drains for additional
reading. A sump system large enough to deal with a serious rain
would be fairly large.

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"anton" u37652@uwe wrote in message news:78a73430d1ea0@uwe...
I am wondering or looking for solutions. My home sits below a
rather lage
hill and I need to build my grading up in order to keep water
flow away from
the home. My challenge is this. Currently my siding is at the
most 2-3 inches
above my grade but i feel I need to take it higher in order to
have decent
flow from the house. It was recommended to me to place some
industrial
plastic ontop of the current soil and continue it up along my
home another 6-
12 inches and then just back fill with dirt until I reach my
desired grading,
thus the plastic protecting from rotting and insects. My siding
is the
concrete based Hardee Plank but with this plastic recommendation
it seems
there would be no vapor barrier and over time I may have a
larger problem on
my hands. Am I off on this or has anyone ever had the same
challenge and come
up with a solution?


Thanks Anton