So we've just moved from a flat where I washed bikes in the yard with a proper drain to a house where I'm doing it on flagstones in the garden which promptly floods.
So:- I figure digging some kind of soakway is the right answer, but googling soakaway design leads me into a whole range of rules and regs for drainage that I really don't want to get involved in.
If I lift a couple of slabs and dig a pit at the bottom of the garden, maybe 3' deep; fill it up with bits of broken brick and some gravel, then stick a grill over the top, am I likely to come up against any major issues? It'll be sited a bit over 5m from the nearest house (mine). I accept that it'll fill up with the clart I wash off the bike over time, but anything else I need to consider?
What have you guys done in similar circumstances?
Thanks!
