Driveway Drainage

[HayMaker]

Any advice please. Our front driveway has Aco drains left to right, but the garage and side access was converted into a bedroom. The Aco drain goes into the boundary wall where it just ends. previous owners had a hole through wall, dumping all the rain water onto next doors drive. I'm guessing they complained so it's been cemented up. There is nowhere for the water to go, as the converted bedroom is now flush to next doors garage.

My dad has suggested digging a ditch and putting a submersible pump down there, and pumping it up the side of the bedroom to the back garden!

How would we go about doing something less ghetto?

 

[23vc]

If the drives all slope towards the houses, there must be provision for draining into a surface drain somewhere, where does the nearest downpipe go? What’s the setup with all the neighbours houses?

 

[HERTS P&D]

Post a picture looking at the front of the house so that we can see the guttering.

Andy

 

[HayMaker]

ok will get more pics up tomorrow when light. basically the Aco drain goes into the wall and can't get out anywhere as far as I can feel.

 

[Cheslea2010]

take a look to see where the downpipe from the roof goes and tap into that.

 

[HayMaker]

 

[HayMaker]

rear of the garage conversion. There is nowhere I can see for the Aco drain to go. If you follow it at 90 degrees along the side of the house, it would go into the neighbors garage. There is a drain on the flat roof but that goes down into the utility room and into the shower drain. It wouldn't surprise me if they hadn't accounted for drainage when they did the conversion. It had planning permission but the Dynorod man said it hasn't been done properly. e.g. they've concreted over a manhole cover which would have been where the gutters drain into from the side entrance. Only thing I can think of now is digging out a drain but I guess there would be footings in that corner?