Beat a drainage issue on a walkway that took me 5 hours to figure out

I was working on a small walkway in Portland last Tuesday and kept getting water pooling near the house side. Spent way too long checking my slope before realizing the problem was a buried root from an old maple tree. Dug it out and reset the forms, but man that ate up my whole afternoon. Has anyone else run into hidden roots messing with grade on an otherwise simple pour?

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tessawebb2d ago

Rented a mini excavator once and found three roots hidden under the dirt that saved me hours of digging.

mitchell.shane2d ago

Huh, I think you mean they were roots you would have hit anyway, not hidden ones that saved you work.