Diy Landscape Grading

How to grade and level your yard the easy way step 3.

Diy landscape grading. Sharky is author of landscape site grading principles a comprehensive visually oriented guidebook published by wiley and available online through amazon and other booksellers. Grading levels the yard and gets rid of any area that creates a pond. Once you have found your slope and you know all the areas around your foundation. Landscape your yard yourself with diy network s landscaping design ideas including water features fire pits lighting and no mow planting how tos.

Order a truckload of topsoil dirt. Push wire ground flags into the lawn to mark the four corners of the building project. After you find the high and low points. The work can be done as a diy work when the area to cover is not very large.

Or if the slope of the ground permits it use a creek bed to drain a low spot. You don t need to know sine and cosine in order to do the work. If you own a plot of land where you are planning on building in the future it has to be leveled in order to ensure it is properly going to drain water and help avoid flooding when it rains. If you do not have a slope near the home it can cause flood damage around your home.

Those who have had landscape drainage problems will surely agree. You can solve drainage problems and create an attractive landscape feature at the same time with a dry creek bed. In this video this old house landscape contractor roger cook shares three methods for laying out perfectly level lines. If the area that will be covered is quite large it would be best to seek the help of a professional.

Start by making a swale essentially a gentle shallow drainage ditch. Build a creek bed to direct water away from a low spot in your yard. How to grade a yard establish a level grade line. Use the back of a rake to smooth.

The first is surface water which comes directly from rain ending up on the land. Shovel the dirt into a wheelbarrow. You can even have it delivered which is what i did. Dump the pile of dirt at your low point.

Sharky says the book is designed to simplify the concepts involved in grading both from a design standpoint and out in the field. There are two main sources of water which must be considered. Landscape grading drainage. Pound wooden grade stakes into the ground about 2 feet away from each ground flag.

The first thing that you re going to need to do is to walk around your lawn. Grading a yard involves landscaping the yard to fix the slope away from the base of the property.