Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:06 pm
Hi guys, just want to start off by saying that this site is a gold mine. I have been using it for advice as a DIY'er and its proved great.
I have been landscaping my garden on a new house that we bought last year, the garden soil content is heavy clay with a slope towards the rear of the property.
In the photo bellow you can see that I have dug the front half level and retained the rear with sleepers stood upright burried in concrete.
I also had the excavator remove a further 7-9" of clay so I could back fill with top soil ready for the new grass.
I back filled with approx 8 tonnes of fresh top soil before installing new turf.
after 24 hours of the turf being down and rainfall during the evening it became very apparent that I had drainage problems as the turf was heavily water logged, although it would dispearse over a period it still left the soil very jelly like,
My closet point to tie drainage into the sufrace water drain was right below the kitchen window. My only problem is that its fairly shallow being only 300 mm from surface to bottom of 110mm drainage pipe.
I think that i will have to install further drainage accross both lawn sections using perforated pipe. I was wanting to use 60mm OD due to my being unable to go down the required depth.
I also wanted to run perforated pipe from the far lawn under the path that runs between the two lawn sections and into the 110mm pipe you see sticking out from under the path that i have tied into the surface water drain.
any advice on this problem would be great, I work offshore and try and do bits and bobs when I am home.
Thanks
Stuart
I have been landscaping my garden on a new house that we bought last year, the garden soil content is heavy clay with a slope towards the rear of the property.
In the photo bellow you can see that I have dug the front half level and retained the rear with sleepers stood upright burried in concrete.
I also had the excavator remove a further 7-9" of clay so I could back fill with top soil ready for the new grass.
I back filled with approx 8 tonnes of fresh top soil before installing new turf.
after 24 hours of the turf being down and rainfall during the evening it became very apparent that I had drainage problems as the turf was heavily water logged, although it would dispearse over a period it still left the soil very jelly like,
My closet point to tie drainage into the sufrace water drain was right below the kitchen window. My only problem is that its fairly shallow being only 300 mm from surface to bottom of 110mm drainage pipe.
I think that i will have to install further drainage accross both lawn sections using perforated pipe. I was wanting to use 60mm OD due to my being unable to go down the required depth.
I also wanted to run perforated pipe from the far lawn under the path that runs between the two lawn sections and into the 110mm pipe you see sticking out from under the path that i have tied into the surface water drain.
any advice on this problem would be great, I work offshore and try and do bits and bobs when I am home.
Thanks
Stuart
