drainage

Hi all, This may be a stupid question.... but i'm building a patio which i was originally planning on sloping away from the house, but due to it leading into a raised bed of grass which is very high in clay content i've decided to slope it back towards the house and put drainage channel between...

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Hi there! I am about to replace the flat roof above a bay window, removing the felt as it is starting to leak/deteriorate, and replacing it with a GRP one. I have a few questions and don’t know whether anyone can help?! I have attached a few photos of the existing roof. 1) The roof has a...

Hello, hoping somebody may be able to point me in the direction of what materials I need to repair the broken clay gulley outside my house. I have recently dug out a large bush that had been planted before I moved in which had become overgrown. The roots have made their way around the clay...

Hi all Just installed a new shower! Got the classic problem of a slow draining shower. I removed the trap from the waste (the cup part), and it drains fine. Anyone else have this problem? Thinking if I make the holes in the trap bigger or saw a bit off the pipe that sticks into the trap water...

Hi, I'm a new member but have been reading a lot of the great advice on here. I'm struggling to find information to help me move forward with my project...... I'm totally redesigning our back garden and have taken down a concrete garage, lifted a large block paving driveway and removed large...

We have recently moved into our home 1880s built terrace. I have noticed our rear rainwater drain gulley has a few cracks in! After a good clean and scrub it seems to only be the clay top cracked and the inlet spout is in tact with no cracks. Ideally I dont want to have to dig up garden to...

I am installing a new patio and intend to use an ACO channel to drain it - either into an existing gully or into a soakaway. I intend to have the patio fall in two directions - away from the house and also towards a soakaway. My question is about where to put the drainage channel. The patio...

I’m looking to install 3m of channel drainage to pick up the rainwater from a new pitched roof and take to an existing gulley. I’ve got a 9 inch grinder to cut concrete, looking for advice on how far to dig down and if I have to put a concrete bed below the channel? I’m not a plumber but not...

Hi there, We're in the process of slightly lowering our basement floor (nothing drastic like underpinning, just the remove of the cracked slab and some substrate and relaying it slightly lower with insulation and DPM, all based on a structural engineer's report and going 300mm further down the...

We recently moved into an old terraced house (c. 1895) with a small front yard. We've just pruned back a large rosebush to find that the guttering downpipe has rusted away and separated from the section that goes underground. I had actually noticed a bit of rainwater getting in to the crawlspace...

Hi, I have a built up of drainage smell in the basement where we us to have are old toilet drainage before, basically the old drainage is no longer in use and still has water standing, its under the bay window in the basement. I can access it by removing a few bricks from inside the basement as...

Hello all, hoping for some advice. I have a deteriorating track that approaches my house which is getting rather annoying. It’s got worse over the last few years and I need to do something about it. The pics below show it not at its worst actually. After a lot of rain, the water can cover the...

We have a 1930s end terrace house Water entering subfloor througth gable wall side. Subfloor below street level. Normally I would put a acco drain / french drain in, or lower the external level but I can't because the street is the responsibility of the council. How can a resolve this issue

I recently booked a contractor to get rid of the concrete in my garden, and then lay down some turf. Specifically said get rid of all the concrete and then lay the turf. Found out days later the reason my soil remained soaked 24/7 was because he removed some concrete, but the majority of it...

Hi - I am hoping somebody might be able to help me please. As you'll be able to see in the attached photos, I am getting water in brickwork above the DPM after heavy rain. The affected walls (to the left and right of my front door) are covered by a porch and it is not possible for rain water...

Hi, just after a bit of assurance that I'm doing the right thing with my patio plan. The patio will be next to the house and the other side meets the top of a wall, raised from the lawn. I was initially going to have a fall from the house to the garden so water would drain onto the lawn, but...

Hi all, Looking to install a small washroom in the first floor of my house. There is a single bathroom on the ground floor of the property underneath the stair. Wondering how best to connect in to existing drainage. Conscious that Regs state max. 6m for toilet and 3/4m for basin/shower. Without...

I am looking to have a single story rear extension built but I'm concerned (and a bit confused) about how water from the extension roof and lateral drain at the base will drain. We are a mid terrace house built in 2001 and at the rear of property our guttering simply joins with next door with...

Hi, I have a septic tank and I found out my rain water and foul mix and end up in the same tank/drains. This has always been the case since I bought the property 7 years ago and since the drains were put in when the property was built. I've heard they shouldn't mix, however I bought the house...