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I have a brick garage at the end of my drive, that has a water but connected that has been hidden for years behind trees. As part of laying new patios and garden paths, we have cleared this area, however, the ground is really boggy, and looks like it's not suitable to lay any paving on.
I don't want the expense of laying a new drain, are there any soakaways or other arrangements that can be used to get rid of this rain water, and will the ground at the rear of the garage ever be suitable to pave, or will it always be damp and boggy?
Cheers
I'm trying as below
buy perforated plastic drainage pipe 60/80/100mm (ebay etc)
dig a herringbone pattern trench that slopes/drains to a low point with a water escape facility - 30cm deep ish more etc depending on what's above (*bleeding obvious - water doesn't run uphill)
in trench base with gravel/pipe in/gravel around over pipe/soil back on
*you can *possibly also cover pipe in weed suppressor fabric instead of gravel **possible
it's only been in for about 2 weeks so no idea if it's working, but at a cost of £12.50 for 30M of drainage pipe off ebay it was worth a try - digging is free, if somewhat time consuming
as an alternative see ebay soakaway crate (*plastic spceframe crate that you dig into the ground which gives a soakaway)
Those crates look good, do I just bring a soil stack or similar out so that you can drain straight into, or do you drain onto the surface instead?
I think the soakaway is either to hold water away from soil etc and if you make it big enough it works (*I guess) so it allows disipation away from the surface, if you can plumb the soakaway into a drain that would (*I suspect) be good
Soakaways only work in the right type of soil. If you have clay soil then soakaways won't work very well.
What's creating the water?? The run off from the roof or surrounding paving, or just a low lyIng area of ground??
No sure, I'd assume the run off from the roof just emoting onto it.
As stated ^ theres absolutely no point digging a soak away if the ground is clay beneath this boggy area, ideal scenario would be connecting the roof water from the garage to an existing drain, you'd be very surprised how quickly this will help the matter. Anything nearby to connect onto??
As wrightson you need to determine the source of the problem to find a solution that works
It may be a perched water and therefore remidal works will be expensive.
Cheers peeps. I suppose I may need to run this back to the main drain, just trying to manage my costs a bit. Ta.
Just to add you can still run this via a land drain scenario, doesn't have to be a true piped connection. Would save a few quid on pipes that way. If you do want to go down this route you firstly need to determine the level of the nearest existing drain to check its viable. You'll need some kind of silt trap if you do land drain it before connecting onto the main. Any further info then feel free to ask!
Water butt. Use collected rainwater for washing car.
Water butt. Use collected rainwater for washing car.
It's already been washed this year.
Any further info then feel free to ask!
Cheers.
chances are that the guttering off garage roof feeding into water butt. if theres no drain near to run water into you could- turn guttering around so it falls the other way(this only helps if theres somewhere to run water at the opposite end), or fit an overflow to water butt drill hole in water butt nr top 25mm overflow connector couple lengths pipe few pipe clips. easier to run in than large pipe but again still need somewhere to go.
How about just using decking in that area instead of paving? Ideal for use above damp ground, but not if it's going to be in a shady site cos it'll turn into a death trap as soon as it gets a bit of algae on it.
Or change your plans a bit & use it for a bog garden/fernery/hostas? Turn the negative into a positive.