Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:50 am
Hi all. I am a total newbie to this, but this site has helped me.
I discovered water underneath my floorboards last year, apparently it is a bit of a problem in the surrounding area. The house is beside a
natural stream which has been culverted with concrete and gets pretty high during the wet weather, this runs along the back of the house. Its a detached dormer bungalow.
The ground is pretty clay like and the water table in the area is high so I gather a soakaway will not work. What I am doing to combat this problem
is digging a trench at the back from one end of the house to the other deeper than the ground is under the house. I will have this sloping slightly following
the natural lye of the land and hope to connect it to a mains surface water drain that runs down the side of the house, via a rigid 6inch pipe with holes
at the top covered with pea gravel. Will this help alleviate the problem under the house? Is there something else I can do? Also should I not get permission
what else can I do? I am also thinking of doing similar at the front of the house.
I discovered water underneath my floorboards last year, apparently it is a bit of a problem in the surrounding area. The house is beside a
natural stream which has been culverted with concrete and gets pretty high during the wet weather, this runs along the back of the house. Its a detached dormer bungalow.
The ground is pretty clay like and the water table in the area is high so I gather a soakaway will not work. What I am doing to combat this problem
is digging a trench at the back from one end of the house to the other deeper than the ground is under the house. I will have this sloping slightly following
the natural lye of the land and hope to connect it to a mains surface water drain that runs down the side of the house, via a rigid 6inch pipe with holes
at the top covered with pea gravel. Will this help alleviate the problem under the house? Is there something else I can do? Also should I not get permission
what else can I do? I am also thinking of doing similar at the front of the house.
