Corner of garden getting waterlogged

Launchbury · 17 May 2011

A corner of my garden puddles heavily after it has rained, the garden has a wall built all the way around and the lawn falls into this corner.

Obviously it is being held there by the wall and the natural fall of the lawn.

I'm guessing I should dig a deep hole in the corner and bury a plastic soakaway, is this the best and cheapest thing to do?

Many thanks.

imamartian · 17 May 2011

i'm no expert, but i wouldn't have thought you'd need a particularly big soakaway.

Depending what you had in your shed, i would do something like hammer a timber cricket stump into the ground as close to the corner as you can get avoiding footings. Fetch the stump out, then hammer a slightly bigger diameter bit of timber, say 18" into the ground, wiggling it about as you go.

And then finally, push in a length of 32mm plastic waste, cutting off just beneath ground level. And fill this with small pebbles or gravel.

You could do a couple of these?

foxhole · 18 May 2011

Wall should have been built with drainage in mind. Could alway dig close to wall and put a 45mm hole thru and a bit of waste pipe to aid drainage.

LooPrEvil · 19 May 2011

imamartian said:
i'm no expert, but i wouldn't have thought you'd need a particularly big soakaway.

Depending what you had in your shed, i would do something like hammer a timber cricket stump into the ground as close to the corner as you can get avoiding footings. Fetch the stump out, then hammer a slightly bigger diameter bit of timber, say 18" into the ground, wiggling it about as you go.

And then finally, push in a length of 32mm plastic waste, cutting off just beneath ground level. And fill this with small pebbles or gravel.

You could do a couple of these?

I am not quite sure what that will do, other than compact the soil even more?

imamartian · 19 May 2011

LooPrEvil said:
imamartian said:

i'm no expert, but i wouldn't have thought you'd need a particularly big soakaway.

Depending what you had in your shed, i would do something like hammer a timber cricket stump into the ground as close to the corner as you can get avoiding footings. Fetch the stump out, then hammer a slightly bigger diameter bit of timber, say 18" into the ground, wiggling it about as you go.

And then finally, push in a length of 32mm plastic waste, cutting off just beneath ground level. And fill this with small pebbles or gravel.

You could do a couple of these?

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I am not quite sure what that will do, other than compact the soil even more?

well the theory is that the holes push through the clay, and into a different subsoil... therfore allowing the water to flow through. I've done a similar thing in my garden and it works fine.

LooPrEvil · 20 May 2011

Fair enough, but clay generally tends to be several feet / yards deep, not inches.

lasors · 20 May 2011

If the land beyond the wall is not yours you can't drain onto it so you have to channel the water somewhere else or contain the water and allow it time to soak away. You could dig a trench and backfill it with gravel. Beware of digging big holes next to wall foundations.

If you have heavy clay soil, a soakaway in clay is just a pond. A bore hole might be a better idea.

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Corner of garden getting waterlogged

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