Hi, I'm new to this site and hope you can help.
From my house I walk down two steps onto a patio which is about 2 / 2.5 metres wide and then 5 steps up to my grass (about 1 metre ). I have one retaining wall at the front and one at the back.
The garden is about 180 sq m. The soil is quite mixed. At the front I have top soil and a sandy ballast and clay. In the middle and back I have about 2-3 inches of top soil and then clay. At the retaining wall at the back, there is a concrete bed which comes out 1.5 metres from the wall, where water runs back to the wall and there is 3 inches of top soil above the concrete.
The garden is very wet and muddy and so are the walls. It just hold water. like a reservoir. I have damp going up the wall at the back and damp coming down the wall at the front.
I have had lots of suggestions such as land drains - but then someone said it wont really work in so much clay; a soak away - but then I was told the water would just build up. I am considering artificial grass but don't know whether I will just have water coming back up.
Do you have any suggestions?
From my house I walk down two steps onto a patio which is about 2 / 2.5 metres wide and then 5 steps up to my grass (about 1 metre ). I have one retaining wall at the front and one at the back.
The garden is about 180 sq m. The soil is quite mixed. At the front I have top soil and a sandy ballast and clay. In the middle and back I have about 2-3 inches of top soil and then clay. At the retaining wall at the back, there is a concrete bed which comes out 1.5 metres from the wall, where water runs back to the wall and there is 3 inches of top soil above the concrete.
The garden is very wet and muddy and so are the walls. It just hold water. like a reservoir. I have damp going up the wall at the back and damp coming down the wall at the front.
I have had lots of suggestions such as land drains - but then someone said it wont really work in so much clay; a soak away - but then I was told the water would just build up. I am considering artificial grass but don't know whether I will just have water coming back up.
Do you have any suggestions?