Anyone put me right please, I have taken up our old patio slabs, well past there sell by date. Problem is I checked the distance from the damp course to the top of the old slabs 3 to 4 inch's, everywhere say's it should be 150mm, near to 6 inch's. I cant break up and dig out the old concreate base, but I've read and been told this can be a smaller gap if I start the slabs out from the wall and fill in with gravel or slate. Any idea's please. Reg
Damp course distance
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blightymam
I was always under the impression that it should be 2-3 bricks worth distance, so your 6" is about right.
You can build what I know as a poor-man's french drain, which is to dig and fill with loose stones, which is what you're suggesting. I always thought it should be a fairlydeep dig tho for somewhere decent for the water to go, not just 3 inches or so.
Have you had any problems with damp? If not you've been lucky and you could always try your plan. If you end up with damp then you'll know what to do in future!
You can build what I know as a poor-man's french drain, which is to dig and fill with loose stones, which is what you're suggesting. I always thought it should be a fairlydeep dig tho for somewhere decent for the water to go, not just 3 inches or so.
Have you had any problems with damp? If not you've been lucky and you could always try your plan. If you end up with damp then you'll know what to do in future!
Cheers blightymam, your the first to reply and I think any other answers will say the same or similar. Looks like I'm in for a few headache's.
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blightymam
Good luck with it all, you've my sympathies!
We've got to do the same and have been putting it off for 2 years
Got to lower the whole garden thanks to some idiot laying concrete over the damp proof. It's the finding of drain pipes and not hitting them - oh and lowering man holes that puts us off!
We've got to do the same and have been putting it off for 2 years
Got to lower the whole garden thanks to some idiot laying concrete over the damp proof. It's the finding of drain pipes and not hitting them - oh and lowering man holes that puts us off!
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blightymam
Lol, sorry, I did that 'I live in a cardboard box... ' 'you were lucky...' thingie to you! Good ol' Monty Python.
Apologies - how about we both have a headache huh?!
Apologies - how about we both have a headache huh?!
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