Recent content by SillyMan

The cast iron is still there, its the rusty thing, I am not sure what it is but I think it is rubbish. I have dug out a bit of mud under it to see if there is another pipe but I cant find anything so it appears to be one in and one out. I think you are right, it's very bodgy but I reckon it...

A picture with the cap back in position: IMG_0519 by SillyMan posted 1 Nov 2020 at 5:28 PM

I think the house gutters drain to the same soakaway that the long pipe leads to, that would make sense given where the pipe is pointing. When you mention about 'the square thing' I wasnt sure which bit you were referring to, do you mean where the water is on the photo in my last post? Maybe you...

I dug a little further to expose the cast iron thing. I still have no idea what it is but I am assuming it isn't functional its just some buried rubbish. IMG_0518 by SillyMan posted 1 Nov 2020 at 3:19 PM

There is no drive. This is a path at back of the house which leads to the patio, just paving slabs. I know it is quite difficult to get a good impression of what is going on from the photos but it isn't much of a constuction, its definitely not something which has been carefully built and then...

I am currently redoing my patio and in the process I am considering adding an extra linear drain. I will need to connect to a pipe which is coming from the another drain in the patio so I lifted a paving slab and dug a title way down to expose the pipe, but when I did that I discovered this...

Drain