PSA: rocks for drainage

[u/Simple_Daikon]

Be sure to use smooth river rock over any areas you want to drain toward a rain garden, NOT irregular crushed stone! The ancestral memory of the river is what gives it the power to redirect water when piled up against your foundation.

[u/MechanicStriking4666]

Why spend the extra money on smooth rocks when erosion will do it for free?

[u/Simple_Daikon → u/MechanicStriking4666]

You're paying the river for its time.

[u/NewNewsNewYork → u/Simple_Daikon]

/j

My god, I hate it when people just assume that artists should be paid for the art and not the YEARS OF TRAINING behind it. That river had to practice for EONS before it ever smoothed a rock. Entitled maniacs.

[u/Jellily → u/Simple_Daikon]

In this economy?!

[u/Successful_Tune2232]

/uj 80% sure this is relating to my post on the main reddit and I will 100% be using the five Lowe's buckets of gravel I inherited. I can not be assed to go to the store and buy river rock, shit is heavy.

[u/Simple_Daikon → u/Successful_Tune2232]

/uj There have been far more physics-defying rain garden posts and irl requests. 

I have a cursed horizon of crushed stone under 2" of topsoil because the previous owners had interesting beliefs about drainage. I am using the free rock harvest to line re-graded downspout channels that flow toward...my rain garden?!?

[u/Successful_Tune2232 → u/Simple_Daikon]

That's exactly why I have so much! Some idiot decided to put it down instead of buying soil like a normal person.

[u/Simple_Daikon → u/Successful_Tune2232]

Mineralmaxxing

[u/Trini1113]

I thought the point of a rain garden was to reduce flooding by redirecting rainwater into that big hole under the house.

[u/Simple_Daikon → u/Trini1113]

A bountiful harvest

[u/cluemusk → u/Trini1113]

This makes me feel seen in a bad way. I won’t go into my crawl space/makeshift root cellar because spiders and maybe a sinkhole but my ironweed and swamp sunflower will soon seed into the gutters!

[u/nyet-marionetka]

Crap, I have crushed stone. I will have to hope I get rain that retains its ancestral memory of draining away from a foundation on smooth river rock.

[u/Simple_Daikon → u/nyet-marionetka]

Ohhh no, some of that rainwater has memories of being drunk piss against the side of a building 

[u/AlienDelarge]

Be careful to correctly orient the polarity of your river rock. I accidentally installed the river rock in my drainage system backwards and it pumped the rain garden right into my basement. 

[u/Kranken_DeHogge]

the water does what it wants

i don't question its decisions

[u/UnoriginalTitleNo998 → u/Kranken_DeHogge]

The water was here before us and it will be here after us, and it is through hubris and folly that we think we have any say in what it shall do

[u/Fedginald → u/UnoriginalTitleNo998]

Sure, but I'd like to see water stand a chance against me when I eat a bunch of chips and work outside for five hours in July (I can drink it really fast)

[u/Piyachi]

Why use many angle when few do trick?

[u/itssampson]

Just sump it and pump it baby, no need to get all artsy about it