My neighbor has a drainage ditch that runs throughout instead of an underground storm water system.
Every driveway in the neighborhood runs over said ditch and has some corrugated pipe underneath to allow water to flow through, which is probably obvious.
Nearly every driveway in the neighborhood has visible concrete patches where work has to be done due to the driveways caving in above the drainage system. Like, 90% of the houses here have obvious patchwork. I’ve looked at the driveways that seem to have held up better and don’t see much of a difference in the actual construction, however, it does seem that a longer pipe + lawn/fill dirt relative to the width of the driveway does a bit of a better job but that’s just an anecdotal observation.
My problem:
I bought this house a year ago, driveway had recent been “fixed” for this issue but it has now failed. Started with minor cracking but now we are at complete failure.
See photos.
I managed to Jam a stick into the crack and there’s literally no dirt supporting this thing anymore.
I’m trying to figure out best way to proceed, I am very capable of doing handy work but have minimal experience with concrete.
Curious what everyone’s thoughts are as far as feasibility of tackling this myself or am I about to shell $10k for a dinky ass slab….. just for it to probably fail again in a couple years anyways