Our house is built on essentially river/glacial till, no soil around it just gravel/sand/stones. Bizarrely though there seems to be a strata of clay within it somewhere, and water pools near the DDA compliant ramp at the entrance when it rains heavily. I've put a fencing bar in to a metre and haven't broken through it.
We've just spread 30 tonnes of topsoil at that side of the house and seeded it, hopefully the vegetation may take up some of the water next time it rains heavily. The gap between the house and the soil is about 1.5m. The seeded area has a border of boulders(have to put them somewhere!) and we plan to put down gravel between the border and house. If We find it still pools there it will waterlog one corner of the grassed area. I've looked at the drains and there's an oval rodding eye adjacent to the front door(pipe runs parallel to house draining the other way), about 3-4m from the problem area. If I dig this up, can I remove this end, dig a trench to the problem area, excavate a small pit, put a 3-4m pipe on the end and ensure it's running downhill to the rest of the pipework, cover the end of the pipe in a filter of some sort(terram?) and bury the lot under gravel?
It removes the rodding eye but hopefully water then wouldn't pool, it would be easy enough to access if it needed cleaned/renewed and would hopefully move the water to the proper soakaway they installed when the place was built which does work properly.
If I dug a small pit surely this would fill, then enter the pipe and all be below current ground level?
Hope this isn't confusing, any advice appreciated!
We've just spread 30 tonnes of topsoil at that side of the house and seeded it, hopefully the vegetation may take up some of the water next time it rains heavily. The gap between the house and the soil is about 1.5m. The seeded area has a border of boulders(have to put them somewhere!) and we plan to put down gravel between the border and house. If We find it still pools there it will waterlog one corner of the grassed area. I've looked at the drains and there's an oval rodding eye adjacent to the front door(pipe runs parallel to house draining the other way), about 3-4m from the problem area. If I dig this up, can I remove this end, dig a trench to the problem area, excavate a small pit, put a 3-4m pipe on the end and ensure it's running downhill to the rest of the pipework, cover the end of the pipe in a filter of some sort(terram?) and bury the lot under gravel?
It removes the rodding eye but hopefully water then wouldn't pool, it would be easy enough to access if it needed cleaned/renewed and would hopefully move the water to the proper soakaway they installed when the place was built which does work properly.
If I dug a small pit surely this would fill, then enter the pipe and all be below current ground level?
Hope this isn't confusing, any advice appreciated!