Basement Waterproofing a Basement that has Structural Clay Walls Using Weep Holes

Maybe I did misunderstand that about the swale... But even if it's about moving dirt around, if I did it, I'd still take the tree out that I have in mind because it's a dying maple, a sign that it's not getting enough water as maples seem to be trees that thrive on wet grounds. So if I did remove the maple, that would open some options up for grading and I guess that's why I instinctively blended that *optional* component to your swale concept. My apologies on that--I tend to merge ideas but assume the final product is the original concept when I think things through too quickly. But remove the tree or keep it, it's about moving dirt around to form little passages for the water to be transferred through. Check, got it. But the thing is that, if I do remove the tree by the street, I could lower that area enough to potentially coerce the water down toward that direction, at least on that side of the property. But even doing any of the swale concepts, it's still going to be way more than I can do on my own and pickings are pretty slim for contractors who do this kind of work around where I live. We mostly have what I call "pretend landscapers" who specialize in conning 80-somethings into mowing yards for thousands of dollars and calling that landscaping. To me, whenever I think of landscaping, I think of exactly the things we're talking about, but since that usually requires machinery or manual labor beyond planting trees or cutting grass, you just don't see many people who do that kind of work. If they do, they're usually called excavators (at least, they are in my area), and pickings for those types are pretty slim, too, at least for good ones.

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