I like water. Without water, there’d be no invigorating shower after a long day of toil, no refreshing dip on a 90° day, and the toilet wouldn’t work quite as well. Also, water is a key ingredient in many of my favorite refreshing beverages, not least of which is a hoppy IPA. Sometimes, though, water is not my friend – like when it tries to float away my shed, or comes seeping through our basement walls. Our driveway slopes toward our shed, and every time it rains water comes cascading down at it. Over the years, this has pretty well rotted out the bottom of the doors. We recently had to redo our driveway, since there was only about one square foot of it that WASN’T cracked. I decided to take the opportunity to install a channel drain, to send the unwanted water into my neighbor’s yard somewhere it wouldn’t be such a nuisance. Read More