Morning all - hope this is the right place. If it's not please someone move it
My block paving drive slopes slightly down to my garage and as a result when it rains some of the water always ends up flowing into my garage. It's not been a massive problem as I just don't store anything on the floor that could be a problem, but we've started getting fungal growth now in places and the missus has had enough so I need to work out a solution.
First of all a pic:
What I'm thinking of doing is to lift the back row of paving and to drop in one of those drainage channels running to the left and into the soil behind the small wall you can see (there's a couple of foot drop and the soil drains well and already takes most of the run-off from the drive). Then I'd replace the block paving after cutting to size.
Is this a valid option? If not, what would be better? I don't want to lift the block paving to drain the water into the drains.
Is there anything I need to watch out for when laying a drainage channel? Ie what sort of base should it be laid on?
Anything else I should be aware of?
My block paving drive slopes slightly down to my garage and as a result when it rains some of the water always ends up flowing into my garage. It's not been a massive problem as I just don't store anything on the floor that could be a problem, but we've started getting fungal growth now in places and the missus has had enough so I need to work out a solution.
First of all a pic:
What I'm thinking of doing is to lift the back row of paving and to drop in one of those drainage channels running to the left and into the soil behind the small wall you can see (there's a couple of foot drop and the soil drains well and already takes most of the run-off from the drive). Then I'd replace the block paving after cutting to size.
Is this a valid option? If not, what would be better? I don't want to lift the block paving to drain the water into the drains.
Is there anything I need to watch out for when laying a drainage channel? Ie what sort of base should it be laid on?
Anything else I should be aware of?