This sucks

[RetiredSeabee]

When it rains it pours. Sorry but I couldn’t help it. Once a smartass....... glad to hear that you are on the mend. And the flood didn’t do more damage. No doubt you will turn up the level of Semper Fi and come up with a solution to the drainage. I would lend you some Can Do but I suspect that you have plenty.

[fortyshooter]

Wow that is a mess to clean up! Never know what Mother Nature has planned. When I put up the lean to shed on the back of my shooting deck it was an area of ground that can stay wet and mucky after rains as the run off is coming towards it. I dug a ditch 7 inch deep around the door side and backside of the shed. Took a long piece of 12 inch plastic coregated drain pipe with the drain holes in it and cut it in half leaving two pieces 6 inch in depth.
Put each length in the trench to guide the run off around the shed and towards a low area. The gutter on end of roof drains into that also.
Built up the floor in the shed with gravel to raise it up to the concrete block height and get it level. So far it has been dry as the water goes around.

[BrokenolMarine]

Wow that is a mess to clean up! Never know what Mother Nature has planned. When I put up the lean to shed on the back of my shooting deck it was an area of ground that can stay wet and mucky after rains as the run off is coming towards it. I dug a ditch 7 inch deep around the door side and backside of the shed. Took a long piece of 12 inch plastic coregated drain pipe with the drain holes in it and cut it in half leaving two pieces 6 inch in depth.
Put each length in the trench to guide the run off around the shed and towards a low area. The gutter on end of roof drains into that also.
Built up the floor in the shed with gravel to raise it up to the concrete block height and get it level. So far it has been dry as the water goes around.

Don't know if I posted the French Drain here from the flood last September.

We dug a long trench across the back and down one side and put 100 feet of that pipe in, covered in and resting on gravel to carry the water away. 13 tons were delivered. Some was used on the drain, the rest was spread on the drive. That drain worked very well thru winter snows and hard rains until this Flood, unlike any they have seen since the 90s.

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I have talked several times with the original owner of the house, the one who built it in the 80s. HE had a deep ditch dug along side the property line corner, about three feet wide and two feet deep he maintained with the tractor. The workshop nor the fence was here. HE put the ditch in to protect the house.

In the picture below, you are looking across a portion of the 60 acre hay field, and you can see the roof of the house and the woodshop just peeking over the hay. That 60 acres drains down toward the house. Not surprising that we have some drainage issues when we get heavy rains.

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In this pic of the front of the woodshop, you can see the hay field directly behind and above the shop.

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If we decided to build up a slope of dirt behind the woodshop to keep the water from flowing in, you see the problem. They put the shop right on the property line. I'm sure the owner of the hay field would allow us to access the field after he cut the hay in July, as long as it hadn't rained, but we would have to take down, then reinstall the fence after we finished. (It's our fence.) Build up a sloped bank of dirt a foot or so high against the back wall to force water to flow away from the building to either side. Might work.