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Hey All! This is my first post and I'm really excited I found this site. Im pretty new to the DIY world in general but I'm getting there so I'll take any help I can get. March 2018 I bought a cabin that borders a national forest in a subdivision that has no HOA, a single lane road on a pretty...

Hello all. I am hoping for some help identifying this issue: imgur.com/a/mQXxs9C There is a small void running around the corner of the house a down a hill right where to gutters end. We have long assumed it was erosion but some small holes in the soil seem to have grown this year. We have...

Our house sits at the bottom of a hill. During heavy storms we get a lot of water flowing down and through a 50' long dry creek bed (sloped apprx 1.6%) with rock and decorative boulders crowded into our small yard. The rock bed is being silted over + weeds and grass are thriving in it. A small...

Hey there, We have an issue that is potentially going to cause us to lose our home. Our creek has widened to the point that it is 15-20 ft. from the foundation of the house. I've contacted the Sanitation District and Division of Water, had more than enough Civil Engineers come out and no one...

I HATE the ivy holding the dirt in place on my front lawn. It was there when I bought the house. I've already started removing it but I don't know what I want to put in its place. I was thinking of installing a 2'-3' timber retaining wall and leveling the yard enough to plant grass. 1) Any...

The previous homeowner of our house converted the two car garage into living space. As in most garages, the garage floor is set down inside the foundation walls (~14 inches) resulting in the typical walk down from the normal living space onto the garage floor. In order to wall off the two garage...