You have lots of options for land drainage and some are quite cheap but even the best will not work unless you do it correctly.
You need to find the water table to make a effective soak away.
Firstly you need to know how big of a soak away you need.
The formula i use is:
Vol = A × 80...
He is right about polymeric sands as they are the best way if you can afford them and you get the right one (some suck).
However he did say he was looking for alternative options so i gave one and done correctly (packing with a bucket handle) its at least a option...
Ok so i have a job coming up that has large areas of slabs and block paving.
I typically lay block paving on whacked down sand in the normal way and i normally lay slabs on a full bed of damp sand and cement mix (on a 100mm hardcore base for both obviously).
Now i know many lay slabs on...
Depends on what you are laying and how.
Just to cause you more problems you could also have what is called a floating edge :).
This is a good site for those new to this stuff it has links to most questions on the site and i have linked to the part you are at (for now)...
Wicks or even a local timber yard that supplies fencing could have a variety of brackets you could check out so try them first.
I once had a job where they had a similar problem and though the brackets available were weak, so i headed to the local iron mongers and bought a length of thicker...
The parts of a fence that always rot first and rot extremely fast are the parts touching the ground and just below the surface because they stay wet a lot longer etc, its the same reason why timber posts always rot and eventually snap at the bottom if you think about it..
So even a 6 inch...