Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

Really? Sweden?

Did you not like it? How did the house party go and ho did you want to win?

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

We are on Clay and the soak-away hole was about 2.5m deep and 2m square and when it rained the water just seemed to sit there rather than disappear. tbh...

I was thinking about a soakaway for our garden, but we are also on clay. I don't see how the water can soak away through clay? Perhaps you need to drill down to a pervious layer?

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Did you not like it? How did the house party go and ho did you want to win?

We weren't really watching until the points and we caught a few acts, mostly sat in the garden eating homemade pizza and drinking homebrew cider

I'm always for the comedy act so probably would have liked Russian grannies to win.

Must go to tip today, weed, and sort greenhouse. But I haven't even left the sofa yet

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

One and the same. Were you at the same roller-disco? Sorry if that's an insult, I can't keep up with who's what age.

I can't roller-skate, let alone dance in them. VERY impressed that you can.

lostinrates

Chick hatched by its self and cotton eyed jojo is a vy happy mummy.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

In my old house the builders had no problem getting a min-digger down a shared access then across a neighbours patio to ours. (The neighbours were not at all pleased but couldn't do anything about it.)

This seems to have a fair bit of detail on sizes needed but I'm still not sure if you are looking for a soak-away from a roof/patio or in fact need to improve the drainage of the whole garden area?

We are on Clay and the soak-away hole was about 2.5m deep and 2m square and when it rained the water just seemed to sit there rather than disappear. tbh...WE also left the old soak-away (found the pipe and you can see in the grass where it runs too but not sure how big it was. This is to drain 64m2 of roof and 35m2 of patio though.

TheProfessionalShopper Alert:As an aside did you know that if all your surface water drainage goes to soakaways and non in to the masins drains you can claim a rebat eon your water bill?

This is merely to stop the grass remaining to wet to use in summer and dry out too slowly; since the neighbours solution to the problem was to patio over their whole garden, the problem has got worse. So the guttering downpipes will still drain into the sewage system. So no water bill (which isn't my bill in any case) rebate.

I suspect that there is an old soakaway somewhere (possibly not even in this garden) that has got blocked up overtime. So the easiest solution is to put a new soakaway at the bottom of the garden.

The grass area is about 30 foot by 12 foot, so 360 sqr foot, 40 sq yards, 36 m^2.

I am only looking to make a noticable improvement, not create a bowling green. I though a builder with some spare rubble and a couple of spare labourers would be the easiest solution.

sss555s

silvercar wrote: »

I though a builder with some spare rubble and a couple of spare labourers would be the easiest solution.

Have to agree with that.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

I can't roller-skate, let alone dance in them. VERY impressed that you can.

I couldn't do it now! When I was a kid in the 70s, my parents used to take my brother and I to the afternoon roller disco. I'd move around and bend my knees and vaguely make dance moves, while my brother, who'd already spent a few years on a skateboard, could skate backwards, put one leg up while skating on the other and do all sorts of other moves. He was like a Travolta on skates, only without the medallion - and aged about 10 definitely without the chest hair!

A lot of it for both of us I think has to do with being kids, ie less fearful, don't care if we make fools of ourselves, but perhaps more importantly, much shorter and therefore having a considerably lower centre of gravity...

silvercar

I overdid it friday, so had to take lots of pain killers yesterday

Every cloud has a silver lining, side effect of the pain killers is that you brown quickly in the sun.

Doctor said I will be up and running after a few days originally - I said that would be amazing, given I've not run in 20 years!

lostinrates

Chick has a sibling. Chick one was black, chick two is yellow. Nero and Xanthe we think.