New house garage problem

AdrianC

One wall of the garage forms a retaining wall for higher ground on that side?

Then what you need to do is drain that ground. A french drain along the wall may well work just fine - and is minimal time/materials. Dig a trench, porous land drain pipe, porous membrane, few bags of gravel. Job jobbed. The water goes into the pipe, runs through, and out the end to somewhere better than your garage.

moneyistooshorttomention

john1990 wrote: »

Any heavy rain and it seems to go straight through their garden and out the wall!

I am guesing this is our fault for not having a decent survey done and we don't really have a leg to stand on! I wonder what cakes the neighbours enjoy...!

Try for a good homemade apple cake (it's GOT to be butter used for it) and some nice West Country clotted cream separately (to spoon on if wanted). Make it nice strong real coffee with it - and, of course, all possible ingredients organic - and we'd be talking....

Davesnave

AdrianC wrote: »

One wall of the garage forms a retaining wall for higher ground on that side?

Then what you need to do is drain that ground. A french drain along the wall may well work just fine - and is minimal time/materials. Dig a trench, porous land drain pipe, porous membrane, few bags of gravel. Job jobbed. The water goes into the pipe, runs through, and out the end to somewhere better than your garage.

The gap between the garage wall and the neighbour's 7' high boundary wall is 100mm.


Going to need some Oompa-Loompas!

AdrianC

Davesnave wrote: »

The gap between the garage wall and the neighbour's 7' high boundary wall is 100mm.

Ah, yes. I missed that.


Is that 100mm space clear of junk, leaf mulch, and general rubbish? It's the usual case of a small gap being almost worse than no gap, because you simply can't get in to maintain the space.

G_M

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Try for a good homemade apple cake (it's GOT to be butter used for it) and some nice West Country clotted cream separately (to spoon on if wanted). Make it nice strong real coffee with it - and, of course, all possible ingredients organic - and we'd be talking....

Aaahhhh! Mmmmm......


the sound following dipping my tongue into your clotted cream.......


Now, are you percolating that for me 'cos if so........?


:kisses2:

sheramber

http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=103

see the example.. Yes

Responsibilities of property owners

The law (common law) requires that you use your property or land in a way that does not increase the risk of flooding to a neighbouring property. If you do carry out acts on your property that results in flooding to other people’s property, you may face a civil action.

To reduce the risk of flooding to neighbouring properties, the law requires that you:

Keep your drains clear in your property and to ensure that you do not drain water into your neighbour’s property or foul drain. There is a natural right of drainage that allows water that flows naturally across your land to flow downhill naturally to your neighbour’s land. But you are not allowed to artificially channel water a way that will cause damage your neighbour’s land. If you do, you may face a civil action. (Example: Yes - Rainwater that falls on your lawn is allowed to flow downhill through your neighbour’s land. No - You are not allowed to channel roof water through a down pipe on to your neighbour’s property.)
Maintain your flood defences (if you have any). If failure to maintain these defences leads to flooding, you could face a claim in negligence or nuisance.

ProDave

john1990 wrote: »

I don't think it's the neigbours fault, when we have the heavy rain the gardens get saturated and the water ends up draining and coming out of the boundary wall about 4ft up (3ft down from them).

Unfortunately it is almost like very rough concrete down the gap, i'm guessing from when it was built, however as the garage is so long and narrow i cannot get down there!

Slot a length of guttering down the gap, to try and catch most of the water and feed it out either at the front or the back wherever it will be easiest to run it off somewhere.