drainage

I'm planning to put a patio in a small area of our garden that was a dumping ground for the previous owners. I've cleared it up and dug down a fair bit: The wall on the left is a retaining wall holding our sloped lawn up the hill and to the right is the back of our garage. In digging out the...

Hello! I have a second floor terrace with big gaps between the slabs for drainage. Weeds grow there non stop. Last year I bought a compound to grout them but my father in law advise me to leave the gaps to allow drainage so I never ended up using it. The other day I just thought I would sow...

Hi all, questions from a DIY beginner about rainwater drainage. My house is mid terrace, both neighbours either side have rainwater/roof water drainage to a pipe running parallel to the rear of the house. Foul water is all out the front of house. At some point, prior to me buying the house...

I've got these two broken rodding eye points in our garden that I ought to get fixed. I was hoping to just buy new covers for both but it doesn't appear that you can just buy the covers and end up with the whole assembly... I broke the middle of this one above taking down a brick wall. I need...

Hello! I need help with a rainwater drainage problem. Not sure what to do in this situation: the terraced house has a rear extension that is the width of the back garden (about 5 m). The length of the back garden is 9m. Currently the rainwater is siphoned into a raised bed. I wanted to put a...

I have an external submersible pump sitting in a 460mm dia chamber. The chamber has a standard cover which I remove whenever we flood and I manually drain water into an aco drain. I am looking for a permanent way of installing the pump Alongside the inspection chamber is a 110mm sewer line. Can...

Hello everyone, new to the forum and whatnot. Garden has some serious flooding issues across the lower level patio area, on my quest to start doing up the garden fixing this will come first. I plan on keeping the pavers to the lower area, but being a DIY novice I'm looking for a long term...

Hi everyone, Well the weather is looking to be better next week and I'm on leave so planning on doing a bit more landscaping in the garden. I'm going to excavate the bottom part of the garden (bounded by the yellow line in the model). There is a clay paver path to be laid on top of sharp sand...

Hi, Our conservatory is leaking and its proving a challenge to figure out where its coming from. Where the external wall meets the conservatory there is an aluminum drainage channel. It seems to have a join there which I believe is where the leak is happening so I want to fix this first. I'm...

Please help, urgent! First post here, hoping someone can advise. We're planning a new WC in a garage, attached simplified sketch shows the plan. A builder we've been talking to has suggested a 110mm connection leading directly from the WC through the slab, then changing direction slightly to...

Alright folks. Hopefully, someone can help in regards to venting my waste pipe from a downstairs cloakroom toilet. It comes straight out and down as in the image and the white pipe is my new drainage from the kitchen, however it's not vented. My toilet bowl is filling up and returning to...

Hi, advice needed please. We live in a 1700’s property which has a combined drainage system where all waste and surface water (guttering etc.) feeds into the same drain. The outside pipe work is carnage and I’m trying to tidy up. We have a soil and a guttering down pipe that run (almost)...

Hello, hoping I can get some feedback on a drainage layout I'm trying to do for our extension. This is an update on an earlier design I posted - I've now removed the internal manhole and it is located outside instead :) We have a private combined drainage system that heads over to our...

Hi guys, Would really appreciate some views on this, photos attached but can take more if helpful. We moved into a ground floor maisonette in a Victorian terraced property last year. There were some damp issues in the north-facing front room (some visible damp patches) and our survey...

I recently had a drain survey done as a soak away pipe at the front of the house is visibly broken and requires repair. As the house was built in the 60s I thought it may be beneficial to check out the whole system. There are no other obvious problems. The men who came to do the drain survey...

Hi everyone, just looking for a second opinion on our filled-in gully! We recently found a broken drain below the gully outside the kitchen of our 1910 house (which the sink and washing machine drain into, so this had just been pouring into the ground for who knows how long!). We have just had...

Hi everyone, Completed the dig on a 3m single-storey extension today and came across a drain that runs a way we weren’t expecting. Seems to serve as a rainwater waste but not too sure if that’s all it is as there’s another clay pipe behind it that seems to run down (done my best to draw it in...

I’m really struggling to understand our home’s gutters. We are end-of-terrace, with one downspout in the front. It’s the single pipe that goes into the grey bricks in front of the fence. I pulled it out yesterday and discovered that it just goes about 12 inches into sandy soil under the brick...

Water is getting into our conservatory and has ruined part of our windowsill. The water pools in one corner. Somebody advised me to apply CT1 to seal the gap between our conservatory windows and the sill on the outside to stop the leak. It didn’t work, and now somebody else has said that I...

Hi Everyone, I'm going to be installing an Aco channel drain (Raindrain) soon. I will need 3 and a bit sections for the job so I will have to make a cut in one. My question is can I make a cut anywhere along the section then fit an end cap to it? I'm hoping so but It wasn't clear from the docs...