We recently bought a house in Norco that was built in 1962 and found that there has been a water leakage problem from the next-door neighbor's habit of overwatering their yard that has gone on for decades. They leave their water running to the point where water and mud seeps through the wall and runs all over my driveway.
You would think it would be a simple matter of asking them to not leave their water running all day long, but the renters that live there have been doing this for over 30 years, and seem oblivious to the problem. Hey, the water and mud isn't leaking all over their driveway, to them it is simply my problem. They actually seem to get perturbed when I politely ask them to turn their water off and stop damaging my property.
Repeatedly.
Millennials. Idiots. Morons. I could go on.
When I called out a contractor and they started breaking up the existing concrete, you could see that the previous owners had tried to alleviate the problem as there were 3 separate layers of concrete on top of each other.
The solution? Ripping out the entire driveway and sideyard concrete and installing a 10" curb with a 70' pool drain, then pouring a new driveway and sideyard.
In addition I'm having a 10' x 10' pad poured for the wife's SheShed.
And a new front porch.
They start ripping out the driveway Monday.
~doug~
You would think it would be a simple matter of asking them to not leave their water running all day long, but the renters that live there have been doing this for over 30 years, and seem oblivious to the problem. Hey, the water and mud isn't leaking all over their driveway, to them it is simply my problem. They actually seem to get perturbed when I politely ask them to turn their water off and stop damaging my property.
Repeatedly.
Millennials. Idiots. Morons. I could go on.
When I called out a contractor and they started breaking up the existing concrete, you could see that the previous owners had tried to alleviate the problem as there were 3 separate layers of concrete on top of each other.
The solution? Ripping out the entire driveway and sideyard concrete and installing a 10" curb with a 70' pool drain, then pouring a new driveway and sideyard.
In addition I'm having a 10' x 10' pad poured for the wife's SheShed.
And a new front porch.
They start ripping out the driveway Monday.
~doug~
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