My wife and I just moved to the country and I have been working on the house. I have a blog in my sig if you care to look. The entire neighborhood is on a slight hill and all the rain and snow melt comes down the hill. The field that the horses are in and portions of my back yard are pretty wet right now. I know that I could dig and install perforated drain pipes for the non frozen ground time of year. But that stuff doesn't work when the ground is frozen does it? What are my options here? I was thinking of doing some land sculpting w/ some machinery and a professional.
The stalls of the barn I just built were getting flooded for a while there. I dug some quick trenches to divert the snow melt and rain. That seemed to save the day. That seemed to save my wife's sanity and that in turn made me not lose my sanity.
So the cliff notes would be. Does any type of drainage work when the ground is frozen other then having the yard sculpted properly and maybe digging a trench along the property line?
The stalls of the barn I just built were getting flooded for a while there. I dug some quick trenches to divert the snow melt and rain. That seemed to save the day. That seemed to save my wife's sanity and that in turn made me not lose my sanity.
So the cliff notes would be. Does any type of drainage work when the ground is frozen other then having the yard sculpted properly and maybe digging a trench along the property line?