Drainage and Runoff
Basement Drainage Before a Competitive Gaming Room
A homeowner emailed me after his son's finished basement gaming setup, three monitors, a decent PC, and a competitive practice...
Civil engineer and drainage writer, page 7 of 8
Marisela spent eleven years stamping site plans for a municipal engineering firm before she got tired of watching good drainage designs get value-engineered out of the final build. She writes about the gap between a stamped plan and what actually gets graded.
Drainage and Runoff
A homeowner emailed me after his son's finished basement gaming setup, three monitors, a decent PC, and a competitive practice...
Drainage and Runoff
A bride called me three weeks before her backyard wedding, not because she wanted a quote, but because she had just walked her...
Grading Equipment
Site grading looks like one of the most physical, old-fashioned trades there is, earth moved by heavy machines, and in one...
Drainage and Runoff
A youth coach called me after his team's practice field turned into a mud pit every time it rained, forcing cancelled sessions...
Permits and Site Planning
A regrading project I worked on two years ago went sideways not because of the earthwork itself, but because of a neighbor...
Grading Equipment
Three quotes came in on a job I was competing for last year: mine, one close to it, and one nearly 40 percent lower than both.