Last year I moved into a house and after sorting out the inside, I’m about to have a go on the back garden as it’s a mess.
The details
The garden is approx 10 meters long and 12 metres wide
It has two large decking areas from the previous owners and I plan to take the lower one out which I think it was put in to cover the water logged garden.
The garden is on a slope which I would imagine is about a metre drop from the house to the bottom of the fence.
The drain is about 4 metres into the garden central the house and sits under the first bit of decking.
Basically because the bottom of the garden gets really damp and marshy I want to level the bottom half and try to put some drainage back into the manhole (is that allowed??). I believe the water is coming from the fields through my neighbours garden, but because they have decked their whole garden it’s difficult to see if that’s definitely where it is coming from.
My current thought to do this, is to build a horse shoe wall to sit around the bottom of the garden (in the ground to clay level about 12 inches down) level it and lay perforated pipe into the drain. I would also hope the water is held back by the wall, if it’s coming from the neighbour’s house.
Does anyone think that is the best route to go down or can anyone offer any other ideas.
Let me know
Thanks
Jacka
The details
The garden is approx 10 meters long and 12 metres wide
It has two large decking areas from the previous owners and I plan to take the lower one out which I think it was put in to cover the water logged garden.
The garden is on a slope which I would imagine is about a metre drop from the house to the bottom of the fence.
The drain is about 4 metres into the garden central the house and sits under the first bit of decking.
Basically because the bottom of the garden gets really damp and marshy I want to level the bottom half and try to put some drainage back into the manhole (is that allowed??). I believe the water is coming from the fields through my neighbours garden, but because they have decked their whole garden it’s difficult to see if that’s definitely where it is coming from.
My current thought to do this, is to build a horse shoe wall to sit around the bottom of the garden (in the ground to clay level about 12 inches down) level it and lay perforated pipe into the drain. I would also hope the water is held back by the wall, if it’s coming from the neighbour’s house.
Does anyone think that is the best route to go down or can anyone offer any other ideas.
Let me know
Thanks
Jacka