Prevent mud and debris from splashing onto your home in the first place by adding mulch around your house.
Mulch up to siding.
Mulch is fluid meaning it moves with wind rain doggies and kitties running through it.
If your grade is level with the siding install a drip edge level with the mulch.
Making the situation worse is a downspout pouring water right into the pile.
Using a dark mulch can contrast with flowers improving your landscape design.
Step 1 shovel about 3 inches of dirt up against the foundation of your home.
I constantly have mulch coming onto my driveway and walkway.
Install the drip edge one foot from the siding when controlling a grade and a little outside the drip line of a home when controlling splashing water.
For example brownish red pine mulch goes well with brick houses says jeremy becker owner of firefly landscapes in kansas city.
Remove any weeds growing in the area.
Ideally one should maintain at least six inches of distance from the top of the garden bed to the bottom of the siding.
While the mulch does help prevent weeds it s important to start with a weed free area.
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Termites do not attack this type of material for that reason.
Leave a 1 2 gap from the top of the edging to keep mulch from touching the siding.
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Use big pieces of pine bark or other bark mulch which are a less hospitable place for the fungus.
Roll out the mulch.
Maintaining proper clearances reduces access to wood structures behind the siding by wood destroying insects or damage from water that might.
Plant a low maintenance groundcover in the area instead of using mulch.
How to install mulch around a house.
This requirement is not just to prevent damage to the siding it serves a couple of other functions as well.
Dirt and mulch are seen here piled against the structure.
To preserve your home s exterior siding and foundation you must ensure that dirt dense vegetation mulch or anything the can hold moisture against your home is properly cleared away.
I need a simple and clean edge to keep things in place.