Improvised soakaway?
 

On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 09:21:55 UTC, Simon T wrote:
Got a slight problem round the back of my parents house.

The path/paved area separating the back of my parents house from the garden
has nowhere for the water to run off. The path/paving slopes to the centre
of the house and away, but there's a raised bed between the path and the
lawn, so the water just pools up in the middle, until it slowly drains away
between the cracks in the paving.

This isn't a problem during light rain, but in the event of a heavy storm
takes time. Plus, I've been trying to jetwash the path to get rid of the
winter moss, and had to give up as I was just padding in muddy water.

Heres a pic following my attempts to Jetwash (raised bed on the right)
http://www.clipsfromthecryptserver1.com/temp/water.jpg

To be fair, the paving could do with relaying, but as they're probably going
to be selling the property in a couple of years don't want to spend the
money.

I was therefore wondering if I could improvise a soakaway by removing one of
the slabs, digging a hole underneath and filling with gravel and placing the
slab back on top, to give water somewhere to drain to.

Would that work? Don't really want to be doing tons of digging, or relaying
of slabs.

yes if big enough. Not sure one slab would do, but it would help.


NT