Earth border around outside walls of house

dr_funkenstein · 10-09-2018 9:45pm #1

Hi,
Could someone enlighten me as to why our house has an earth border around the base of the outside wall? Is this a normal thing or should I look to get rid of this? I only ask as it seems to be riddled with woodlice at night.
Thanks for your help,
DrF

sydthebeat · 10-09-2018 10:00pm

Do you live in a castle? ðŸ‘‘ðŸ‘‘ðŸ‘‘ðŸ‘‘

dr_funkenstein · 10-09-2018 11:03pm

Unfortunately not :] It's only maybe 10cm wide and not right outside the front / back doors obviously. Thoughts at all?

Metric Tensor · 10-09-2018 11:40pm

Any chance of pictures?

Is there a possibility that it's a defunct flowerbed?

Sounds like a potential moisture ingress location!

dr_funkenstein · 11-09-2018 9:36am

Will take some later. I’m basically trying to understand if it has a use as if not I want to get rid of it. It’s quite narrow for a flowerbed but I’ll wait for opinions after I post some photos.

Thanks for the replies so far!

dr_funkenstein · 11-09-2018 3:05pm

Photos attached to explain what I mean.

listermint · 11-09-2018 3:08pm

have you dug that out? it may not be deep. could be very shallow.

Id fill it with river stone tbh make it look neater.

dr_funkenstein · 11-09-2018 5:03pm

Haven’t tried yet to be honest. Do you mean loose fill the dug out trench with something like this (https://www.bakerross.ie/river-pebbles?&gclid=Cj0KCQjwz93cBRCrARIsAEFbWsjHZ11HC2ZrSHvuuTvc-3qngafPhvI8EhMSI9XFnAZfi7b-03BIprwaAnM5EALw_wcB) ?

dr_funkenstein · 23-09-2018 10:40pm

Sorry to bump this thread, just wondering if there were any more opinions out there before I go digging

Thanks for the advice

Earth border around outside walls of house

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