Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:48 pm
Hi all, I have a patio that was laid before we moved into the house. It slopes to the house wall and was touching the main wall below the DPC. All the water collected and sat here. I have now removed a set of flags that run along that wall and laid stone chips in its place. because of the heavy clay beneath water still gathers and sits here. I was wondering about fitting a pipe under the stones with the clay angled towards the pipe to make the water run to the pipe.
This pipe will have holes drilled and run towards my main drainpipe/downpipe from rear guttering. I want to then fit a t piece to this drainpipe where it joins the brown pipe (approx 6 inches down). do you think this would work. (the pipe would slope down to the connection).
Also discovered the mains cable to the garage breaker buried beneath the flags in the clay, standard 3 core (not armoured or in a conduit) with a connection block wrapped in insulating tape, thats another problem i now have to deal with, but at least i have found the cause of my nuisance trips.
This pipe will have holes drilled and run towards my main drainpipe/downpipe from rear guttering. I want to then fit a t piece to this drainpipe where it joins the brown pipe (approx 6 inches down). do you think this would work. (the pipe would slope down to the connection).
Also discovered the mains cable to the garage breaker buried beneath the flags in the clay, standard 3 core (not armoured or in a conduit) with a connection block wrapped in insulating tape, thats another problem i now have to deal with, but at least i have found the cause of my nuisance trips.