Sloping a patio towards the house - Which way should water flow

[wingcommander]

I'm about to have a new patio laid at the back of my house. All the advice in laying a patio suggets that the patio should fall away from the house so that water runs away from it. But because there is a drain from the kitchen right outside the kitchen wall, some of the contractors that have quoted for the job recommend running it towards the house, lay a channel along the house, so that rain water either goes in to the drain or in to something at the side of it that sounds like a small tank. Does this make sense?

[matt h]

if ground naturally runs towards the house a linear channel drain can be utilised effectively to the existing drain, alternatively run the water to a soakaway away from the property.