How to Grade Around a Foundation | This Old House

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook saves a soggy foundation. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Grade Around a Foundation:
- Pressure-treated 2x4s, for making ground stakes
- Pressure-treated 2x12s, used to form retaining wall
- 3-inch-long galvanized screws, used to fasten lumber together
- 4-inch-diameter PVC pipe and assorted fittings, used to create drainpipe
- PVC primer and cement, used to fasten together the PVC parts
- Gravel, for covering the drainpipe

Tools for How to Grade Around a Foundation:
- Shovel
- Wheelbarrow
- Circular saw
- Small sledgehammer
- Drill/driver
- Nylon string and line level
- Rake

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