we laid a patio at the bottom of our downward sloping garden about a month ago. the patio ended up about a brick below where the ground was origionally and 3 bricks clear of the damp course. we built to the garage at the bottom with the sub-base and sharp sand and left about a cm of block paving sand to the wall before the slabs. it generally slopes towards this but in all fairness the front part slopes away (it looks ok to the eye and is only slightly off on the spirit level).
after a weekend of heavy rain and despite an ok day today, one brick layer above the patio is wet looking with some funky white lines. even the garage that has a good 15cm of gravel between the bricks and patio ( one area of patio is between two garages) is looking soggy.
do we need to pull it all up start again? slope it away? paint some protective stuff on it as still bellow the damp proof.
please help, it killed me doing this and can not afford really to get anyone in and really dissapointed seem to be having probs. View media item 35641
after a weekend of heavy rain and despite an ok day today, one brick layer above the patio is wet looking with some funky white lines. even the garage that has a good 15cm of gravel between the bricks and patio ( one area of patio is between two garages) is looking soggy.
do we need to pull it all up start again? slope it away? paint some protective stuff on it as still bellow the damp proof.
please help, it killed me doing this and can not afford really to get anyone in and really dissapointed seem to be having probs. View media item 35641