Do i still need lan drains????
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murkymills
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I have been working on my back garden (again) after numerous attempts to stop water logging of grass. I was told to dig a soakaway, which I did at the point where it was collecting the most. I eventually dug down to at least 5ft and the hole was "dry" at the bottom, but, at the next rainfall I was left with a moat of about 3ft which will not drain anywhere. The house is only six years old and I was told that the builders wagons were using our gardens as a "rat run" through the estate and it is totally compacted. So, now I have given up on the idea of a lush lawn and have opted for the blocked paved courtyard effect, would I still have to sort out the problem of maybe using land drains to sort out the underground water, or can the problems be just sorted by draining the surface water with linear or gullies. Please help as I am knee deep in water bailing out the moat every time it rains.
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murkymills
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well we thought a soakaway was the answer to our problem,ie getting rid of the surface water because the ground seems to be always wet!!!!! but if now we are going to pave the area ,does that eliminate the need for under ground drainage too???? we have a garden that fills up with water every time it rains and the ground is vvvv hard and the water does not drain away as it should we just need a bit of advice as to whether we need to fit drainage under the flags to get rid of the excess water that doesn't want to drain away through normal means ie through the groundTony McC wrote:If your garden is waterlogged, how would a soakaway improve things?
If you choose to pave the area, as long as it is adequately drained to the existing SW system, there should be no problem.