Standing Water Corner Of House - Tapping Into Guttering Downpipe

numbers

If we have a lot of rain, we have a small area of standing water at the corner of the house. Nothing major, 1/2" to an inch but it's there and it can sit a few days when there is a lot of rain. Part of the problem is that the land slopes to that corner of the house and cannot be changed. Plus the chuckies/gravel around that corner of the house is contaminated with dirt and soil.

So what I would like to do is with minimal fuss have the area drain better to help drain the water away from the foundations. To do this I will dig out and the contaminated gravel and replace with washed gravel, however I note there is a rainwater down pipe from the roof guttering that passes through the gravel approx. 2ft from the area the water pools. When digging out the gravel I am going to go along the side of the house a bit, thus I will dig out gravel around the rainwater downpipe and thus I was wandering, Can I place a horizontal drilled section of piping under the gravel that connects into the guttering rainwater downpipe to improve drainage?

Any issues doing that? issues? rules? problems?

Thanks

numbers

Furts

You can do whatever you wish. Nobody is going to complain or make a fuss. Indeed nobody will no what you have done once it is covered over so go for it.

Just be careful over one item. You do not want silt building up in your drainage system and causing you a blocked drain.

numbers

Furts wrote: »

You can do whatever you wish. Nobody is going to complain or make a fuss. Indeed nobody will no what you have done once it is covered over so go for it.

Just be careful over one item. You do not want silt building up in your drainage system and causing you a blocked drain.

I see no issue with silt as the area of gravel I am talking about has taken 15 years to silt up and the roof must contribute 100 times more water and carp.

Davesnave

You are talking about making a small French drain which will be fine if you wrap the perforated pipe in geotextile to prevent large particles going into it.

Your biggest problem may be buying proper perforated pipe in amounts less than 25m, and connecting the same to whatever system is already in place, so I would spend a rainy hour making up my own by drilling ordinary pipe.

The geotextile should be available by the metre (it's often 4m or thereabouts wide) in a good builders' merchants.