Hi all, I am currently DIYing a path at the front of my house, which falls away from my house into a soakaway I built under my front lawn which is higher that my path:
As you can see I had to leave a gap between the path and the house because it had to be slightly higher than the 150mm below DPC level. I have messed up slightly however with not considering where to direct the water longitudinally. Previously, all there was was some decorative gravel so I presume water just drained naturally into the foundations. Is this still acceptable to do? The only other option I can see is to french drain into the pipe you can see on the right of the picture which is connected to my roof gutters.
seanandruby wrote:Why the gap if the patio is falling to the aco ???
because http://www.pavingexpert.com/dpc01.htm says that the dry area arrangement is the preferred method if your flags are above the DPC - 150mm level.
The DPC membrane is above the air vent brick pictured. The reason I can get away with it towards the top of the picture is because its sheltered in that area, hence the support pillar.
