My driveway is at the bottom of my street, and a culvert dumps all the runoff from the road into my driveway right in front of my garage. It's supposed to run beside my house to my backyard, but it ends up flooding my garage instead. Are there any easy, cheap, non-permanent ways to divert water on paved surfaces? I rent so I can't tear up the whole driveway to fix the drainage, as much I'd like to.
Cheap easy and non permanent would be to get some hat swaddles or socked swaddles and roll them across your driveway when it is raining. Down side is that they are too big to drive over.
I grew up in a house with a similar situation and we ended up pouring a small concrete hump across the driveway to diver the water. It was a detached garage that was connected to the house by part of the porch. Natural path of water was between the house and garage. Worked fine, no issues driving over, was a paint to shovel around (Minnesota).
Seems like the landlord might have some interest in preventing the garage from repeatedly flooding? I'm guessing you've already brought it up with them, but in case you haven't, that would be a good first step.
Could you call the city and get them to redirect the water?
Well the Kerbs where I live are designed to keep water off the road perhaps you could try some kind of gutter system?
PIG booms?
https://www.newpig.com/water-absorbent-socks/c/5282
Angle across driveway to divert water. Once wet they should stay put. Dryable and reusable. Should be able to drive over.
Thanks for the suggestions! I have indeed reached out to the landlord, and after many many months they finally sent out a paver, who made a nice speed bump... in the wrong spot. So instead of trying to go through the hassle again I'm just going to take care of this one on my own. This is to keep water along the side of the driveway, so fortunately I don't have to drive over whatever I use to divert the water.
Buy a couple of sand tubes at the local big box store. Throw them out when it's going to rain heavily enough where you will have issues.
Update: I got some QuickDam "sandbags" from Lowes and they have significantly helped keep the rain from Nicole outside the garage.
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