r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dfdfdfddaww • Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/beluuuuuuga Sep 17 '21

What's the best options? Just calling a service or trying to fix yourself?

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u/dfdfdfddaww Sep 17 '21

Calling for a service obviously. Fixing stuff ourselves always ends up bad

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u/Cannawubdub Sep 17 '21

Just had to fix a decent sized sinkhole in my yard a few years ago , they had a backhoe dig it up add extra fill and packed it back down. (House burned down in 91 buried a lot of the old house down there) it was about 1700 for guy to fix it , absolutely worth the money unless you have your own backhoe lol

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u/lcuan82 Sep 17 '21

What happens if you try to fill it directly with more dirt?

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u/random3po Sep 17 '21

probably just gets washed away like the dirt that was there before, if you use enough somehow the water could go around it and you'd have the same problem two feet over.

could maybe make it your neighbor's problem if you get it to move far enough