Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:53 pm
Hello,
I found your website and you seem to be a helpful person so here's my problem:
we have water standing in our garden since last autumn! we have ca. 30cm of topsoil and underneath London clay. i have dug up the former owners trenches left and right but they don't do anything (20mx5m is the garden space i need drenched and my trenches run along the sides, ca. 30cm deep). the neighbors gardens are also quite wet (water standing more or less permanently). there seems to be water underneath the clay or going through it as well, when digging tiny clear springs kept coming up... it almost seems like the water level has risen while the level of the ground has fallen (it's not level anymore with the bit of patio, which it was when we moved in 2 years ago). can that be?
what i'm looking for is a drainage system into a cistern with a pump so at least i can make use of the water in summer, with an overflow to where the rainwater from the roof goes. does that make sense?
i have asked and browsed around for ages now, am aware of the costs but can't seem to find anybody who does this sort of thing in London.
any ideas where to look? if i cant have the pump it's not a drama, but we'd like our garden back!
many thanks indeed in advance and hope to be hearing from you soon.
I found your website and you seem to be a helpful person so here's my problem:
we have water standing in our garden since last autumn! we have ca. 30cm of topsoil and underneath London clay. i have dug up the former owners trenches left and right but they don't do anything (20mx5m is the garden space i need drenched and my trenches run along the sides, ca. 30cm deep). the neighbors gardens are also quite wet (water standing more or less permanently). there seems to be water underneath the clay or going through it as well, when digging tiny clear springs kept coming up... it almost seems like the water level has risen while the level of the ground has fallen (it's not level anymore with the bit of patio, which it was when we moved in 2 years ago). can that be?
what i'm looking for is a drainage system into a cistern with a pump so at least i can make use of the water in summer, with an overflow to where the rainwater from the roof goes. does that make sense?
i have asked and browsed around for ages now, am aware of the costs but can't seem to find anybody who does this sort of thing in London.
any ideas where to look? if i cant have the pump it's not a drama, but we'd like our garden back!
many thanks indeed in advance and hope to be hearing from you soon.