I’d do the right thing and get a drain in there like the one on your link. Hire a concrete cutter for the weekend and away you go. You might also need some cold chisels for fiddly bits in the corners.
Off-hand I’d say the flodrain is your best bet (fill it with pea gravel to stop leaves clogging it up), but is there any chance you have a downpipe (soak away connection) further up the drive you could fit the drain kit to?
A more direct connection to the drain or soak away, rather than transferring the water to another area to ‘sit’?
I very much doubt a piece of wood will keep the water out.
the drive is level until the last 2m or so when it slopes down towards the garage so I need the drain as close to the door as possible, I think?
Without digging down and intercepting the sewage pipe (which I think is a no-no for dropping run-off into?) there’s no drains to the front of the hourse that I think I can access – just that small gap between the houses where it currently goes to anyway.
I did sort the bottom of the garden out – the workshop even got a coat of paint. This is turnign into a trawl through my photobucket account a bit, though;
Mmm-ok, our drive slopes all the way down, so all the water runs down it, if we managed to get flodrains in even half way down it would help our situation (water sitting just short of the front door).
Connecting to the sewage is a no-no nowaday I believe, though used to be normal practice (in the 70’s). We had an outside drain to the sewers removed when we extended…booo! We have to rely on the soak away, which soon backs up, very annoying.