Jaeger_S2k
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Short version, wifey found house for a last hoorah!
Detatched bungalow WITHOUT A GARAGE!
But in all fairness, it's a really nice place and the neighbours are great, that's a big bonus after our last place. Any how, I knew when we saw it, there was a lot to be done, but nothing that was really scary. Place had damp issues.
Water table is high in the area so deap soakaway isn't an option. So far we've trenched around the house to foundation, and tanked the walls and external slab with Black Jack. This is keeping the water at bay, in that it's not coming in through the lower wall below DPC. The house is really in hand and the rear extension will finalise the structure.
The rear garden has so much concrete it's scary, but it's concrete on top of slabs, on top of concrete. Lots of plastic barrier, mostly just large black plastic bags under all the flower beds and no where for the surface water to go. That's all being dealt with as we go, but the front lawn, was sunk for some reason. Never liked it my self, and as the water table is so high, one corner was underwater when it rained.
We've decided to raise the lawn in keeping with the drive and the front of the house and surrounding landscape.
With the water table so high we don't have much depth to dig a soakaway. So, we're coming down around 150mm from the existing lawn, building and filling with hardcore, aprox 200mm. Then backfill existing, adding organic material and tilling approx 200mm, level and add a topsoil of about 100mm. These depths are approx and will be finalised as we go.
The lawn is on a slope away from the house and the house end of the lawn never flooded, so the theory sound good.
You could describe it as, we're adding a huge 200mm x the size of the lawn space where the water can sit and slowly disispate as it does currently.
We've had heavy rain for 2 days now and the trench looks like this, it's being levelled. As we have a giant water level.
Detatched bungalow WITHOUT A GARAGE!
But in all fairness, it's a really nice place and the neighbours are great, that's a big bonus after our last place. Any how, I knew when we saw it, there was a lot to be done, but nothing that was really scary. Place had damp issues.
Water table is high in the area so deap soakaway isn't an option. So far we've trenched around the house to foundation, and tanked the walls and external slab with Black Jack. This is keeping the water at bay, in that it's not coming in through the lower wall below DPC. The house is really in hand and the rear extension will finalise the structure.
The rear garden has so much concrete it's scary, but it's concrete on top of slabs, on top of concrete. Lots of plastic barrier, mostly just large black plastic bags under all the flower beds and no where for the surface water to go. That's all being dealt with as we go, but the front lawn, was sunk for some reason. Never liked it my self, and as the water table is so high, one corner was underwater when it rained.
We've decided to raise the lawn in keeping with the drive and the front of the house and surrounding landscape.
With the water table so high we don't have much depth to dig a soakaway. So, we're coming down around 150mm from the existing lawn, building and filling with hardcore, aprox 200mm. Then backfill existing, adding organic material and tilling approx 200mm, level and add a topsoil of about 100mm. These depths are approx and will be finalised as we go.
The lawn is on a slope away from the house and the house end of the lawn never flooded, so the theory sound good.
You could describe it as, we're adding a huge 200mm x the size of the lawn space where the water can sit and slowly disispate as it does currently.
We've had heavy rain for 2 days now and the trench looks like this, it's being levelled. As we have a giant water level.
