Rainwater drainage

Finally finished digging the trench to take the rainwater away from the new guttering on the kitchen out into a ditch on the edge of our property. It's was not a long trench but it was heavy going clay type soil mixed with rubble and some old farm rubbish and ended up taking about a week all told (not full time!).

Part of the process involved excavating around the bottom of the building to remove the builders dropped bricks and motar and put in a French Drain and gravel. The depth of the new foundations meant that the soil , when returned, would pile up around the foot of the building and could cause a damp problem if the water is not allowed to soak away. The French seem to paint a rubber solution around the base of new building below ground level rather than use a damp proof course between bricks.

Of course at the first sign of rain I was stood out in the ditch watching the water gush out of my new pipework.
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