Garden draining issue with new build - Walker Group

moneyistooshorttomention

marksoton wrote: »

Then you should know that "Rubble" would only be used at a sub level to facilitate a soak away. And is an outdated drainage solution designed to cut developer costs and allow them to dump excess building materials.

:rotfl::rotfl::T.................

*Kat*

It goes around the side of my house and stops at the front wall

Thank you to everyone for your advice

Ikamva

marksoton wrote: »

Then you should know that "Rubble" would only be used at a sub level to facilitate a soak away. And is an outdated drainage solution designed to cut developer costs and allow them to dump excess building materials.

Unfortunately, profit maximisation is what matters at the end of the day.

moneyistooshorttomention pehaps seek psychological help?

Davesnave

Ikamva wrote: »

Unfortunately, profit maximisation is what matters at the end of the day.

moneyistooshorttomention pehaps seek psychological help?

Is your second degree in psychoanalysis?

Of course, profit and cost cutting go hand in hand, which is why many builders just bury rubble under a thin layer of top soil when they 'landscape.' But the diggers and dumper trucks will have compacted the sub-layer long before that. All this is common knowledge.

Where I live, the local drainage contractor doesn't have a degree in horticulture, but he gets more work than he can handle. Some of it is sorting-out back gardens of relatively new properties.

OP, don't let this go. Take more photos, keep pestering, by letter as well as email, to the MD of the company if necessary. You need a garden you can use, not a swamp.

moneyistooshorttomention

We do seem to have picked up a troll indeed here Dave. Might as well tell it like it is:rotfl:. I didn't feel like being so restrained as to ask them what degrees they might have....

Davesnave

I'm not accusing anyone of trolling, but I like to see fair play. No hitting below the belt, unless you're Tyson Fury, that is.

Besides, I'm jealous. My qualifications aren't in horticulture, but I managed to run a plant nursery for a good few years. Just think how much more successful it might have been if I'd had the right piece of paper!

marksoton

*Kat* wrote: »

It goes around the side of my house and stops at the front wall

Then i'd say that's your problem.The water simply doesn't have anywhere to go.And if the sub base is clay ( which is impermeable) the problem isn't going to sort itself.

As Dave says you need to complain and get the idiots back to rectify it.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm not accusing anyone of trolling, but I like to see fair play. No hitting below the belt, unless you're Tyson Fury, that is.

Besides, I'm jealous. My qualifications aren't in horticulture, but I managed to run a plant nursery for a good few years. Just think how much more successful it might have been if I'd had the right piece of paper!

Sometimes there is no substitute for commonsense and experience.