Hi All
To cut a long story short, our garden is slightly sloped and the rear suffers with flooding at this time of year. It's been quite bad recently with the endless rain.
Typically the worst bit is where I plan on building a base for a new shed so I'm just trying to sort out appropriate drainage and better ground.
Upon investigation it seems that further up the garden nearer the house there is an old clay pipe not far below the surface that has collapsed in places and was essentially open to the soil around it.
I've spent a bit of time following the pipe and it terminates in what looks to be an old style rubble pit.
I can't trace the pipe back to the house as it disappears under a concrete slab but my guess is it's for the gutters but I have no way to confirm other that wait until it pours down and check for flow out the pipe. (I have checked the flow for waste from the house and this goes out into the street)
Anyway, my best guess is this is contributing to the flooding because not only is my garden on top of clay, the rubble pit (and no idea how big) is probably not up to capacity.
Also why on earth would they use an buchan / inceptor trap inside a inspection chamber (I think this chamber would have had a slab on at one point and when gardening it was removed no knowing what was below.
Has anyone come across this before? Any idea how to tackle?
Thanks
To cut a long story short, our garden is slightly sloped and the rear suffers with flooding at this time of year. It's been quite bad recently with the endless rain.
Typically the worst bit is where I plan on building a base for a new shed so I'm just trying to sort out appropriate drainage and better ground.
Upon investigation it seems that further up the garden nearer the house there is an old clay pipe not far below the surface that has collapsed in places and was essentially open to the soil around it.
I've spent a bit of time following the pipe and it terminates in what looks to be an old style rubble pit.
I can't trace the pipe back to the house as it disappears under a concrete slab but my guess is it's for the gutters but I have no way to confirm other that wait until it pours down and check for flow out the pipe. (I have checked the flow for waste from the house and this goes out into the street)
Anyway, my best guess is this is contributing to the flooding because not only is my garden on top of clay, the rubble pit (and no idea how big) is probably not up to capacity.
Also why on earth would they use an buchan / inceptor trap inside a inspection chamber (I think this chamber would have had a slab on at one point and when gardening it was removed no knowing what was below.
Has anyone come across this before? Any idea how to tackle?
Thanks
