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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:29 pm
by michaelthegardener
My customer had her drive re done a couple of months back the bloke also replaced her garage door with a double wooden one so she could get her mobility scooter out ever since when it rains bad water pools outside the door and also comes under it there is a drain but its half way down the drive that slopes in to the door and as far as i can tell is little more than the top part anyway 
im guessing no but is there anything that can be done without takeing it all up sorry the pics bad only had my phone
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:34 pm
by lutonlagerlout
need an aco type drain right along the front of that door/wall
LLL
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:40 pm
by michaelthegardener
yeah but it needs to be connected to a drain dosnt it ?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:11 pm
by Suggers
Michael - you've just answered you're own question...? 
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:00 pm
by seanandruby
How far down the drive is the drain? Is there a drain on the low side of the wall that you could run your aco to? Dig down, core drill a hole. A bit of a work around but what would be easier of the two...dig down, or dig to the drain. Photo does'nt give much away.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:23 am
by lutonlagerlout
even if it discharged to the lower area on the left it would be better than the current situation michael
LLL
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:46 am
by Mikey_C
lutonlagerlout wrote:even if it discharged to the lower area on the left it would be better than the current situation michael
LLL
is the area on the left the property next door?
could you bury a single crate in the flower bed to the right or plant some plants that soak up water and just discharge it straight into the flower bed
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:01 am
by seanandruby
There you go Michael, a few options to put to the lady. :;):
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:47 am
by Dave_L
Very poor workmanship - any door or threshold that *could* be subject to water ingress (take into account the prevalent rainfall direction and don't forget the action of the wind) should have a drainage system adjacent to it - more so if the falls are minimal.
This would have been so easy to address at the construction stage - and not expensive - 3 or 4 Aco channels, a green light duty Wavin s/away crate, a bit of pipe/fittings and a small bit of excavation work.
Now it has turned into a major problem.
Cheapest way out would be to fit a run of Aco channels and discharge them into the sub-base (I don't think they'll be taking massive amounts of SW) - this is assuming, of course, there is a decent thickness of granular sub-base present.........
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:45 am
by GB_Groundworks
I'm going to design some kind of solar powerd pump system for acco sumps that fill a water butt for resusable rain water that solves the problem. Need a good name the channel chaser, the aquanaught haha, the retro fit threshold drainage system from jml haha
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:51 am
by Pablo
GB_Groundworks wrote:I'm going to design some kind of solar powerd pump system for acco sumps that fill a water butt for resusable rain water that solves the problem. Need a good name the channel chaser, the aquanaught haha, the retro fit threshold drainage system from jml haha
I know you're taking the p#ss there Giles but I've come across a few situations where something like that would be a good solution. I did one last year where the water was pumped from a chamber via a Steel 3/4 inch pipe that was neatly fixed to walls on the house and garage and then outflowed into a rainwater harvester at the top of the site. The harvester then gravity fed the toilets and garden taps. Was pricey though.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:16 pm
by seanandruby
You need a good size harvesting tank for that. Done a few on large constructions...imperial college South kensington, Hastings college, housing project Elephant and castle, to name a few.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:36 pm
by Pablo
I think the tank was 8000 ltrs and was sub surface. We did the installation but subbed the rest out. It was a massive house on a crazy slope and all the drainage fed it any overflow was pumped to the main. A rainwater harvester seems quite unneccessary in Belfast it's always raining and the water is un metered.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:32 pm
by mickg
has she contacted him to come back and rectify the drainage problem ?
if he does come back it would be a good idea to get him to re sand the block paving seeing as it looks like there is no sand in the joints and do decent cuts round the curved raised planter instead of splaying the block and filling what looks like a 25mm gap with kiln dried sand
you could train a monkey to do a better finish than what your customer got round the curved planter, but sadly thats what you get for paying peanuts ???
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:29 pm
by michaelthegardener
this is the same customer who has the bodged patio same builder 
everything in the pic is the same garden it slopes down towards where i was standing and there is a soakaway in the path there the drive used to slope down towards this path and has been built up as it is now
she and her family have tried to get him back but cant get hold of him shes not told me what she paid but im sure it wasnt peanuts shes just been ripped off