On 5/22/2011 8:43 AM, basilisk wrote:

Looks like it is coming together, but I'm curious, what did you
do for the subsidence?

Built up the slab with 3 1/2" of reinforced concrete (which is only a
band aid for a much larger geologic/geo-political problem, and one that
will not last) per engineer specs; diverted the runoff from a new
neighbor's property to the North (which was the biggest culprit) to a
french drain; built up and sloped drainage away from the buildings
foundation; incorporated a "coffer damn" of sorts into the new slab on
the West, North and East ... the South exposure drains fine down a
driveway to the street; added gutters to divert rainwater away for
building into french drain.

These are all just band-aids, but the cumulative effect has been to at
least stop water during extended downpours, where before just a medium
heavy rain of any duration would cause water encroachment on the NW corner.

All bet's are off for the next hurricane, but you can't stop a
determined mother nature.

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