Saturday, 2 October 2010 / 10:33
Not much has happened over the past two weeks, just the odd day when a little more brick work has appeared and this Thursday the pipes for the rain water drainage were laid in position. Yesterday was a day of rain which means that the water table has risen: it’s only about a foot below the surface, so the pipes are sitting in water.
In the foreground you can see part of the existing pipe which runs down to the ditch at the end of the garden. This is where some of the water from the house currently drains. Unfortunately it’s about 250 mm higher than than the new pipe so one off my tasks is to install a new pipe which starts at the right level and comes out in the ditch. I’ll replace the old clay pipe with some new plastic piping. The advantage of the plastic piping is that, due to the pipe being more slippery, you can have less fall and roots don’t get into the joints and fill up the pipe.