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Water pooling outside house

  • 01-03-2020 9:55am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I moved into a house a few months ago and after a shower of rain water tends to pool by the side of the house. I have attached two pics showing this.

    There is no sign of dampness inside the house at the moment but do you know if this could cause damage to the house long term? Foundation damage, or rising dampness etc.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Drill some drainage holes with a masonry bit see if it has an impact


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭WEST


    Assume after drilling the drainage holes that it okay if the water drains under the concrete path?

    I was thinking plan B is to add a drain where the water is pooling and pipe it to the existing gutter system or is that overkill?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,889 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    WEST wrote: »
    Assume after drilling the drainage holes that it okay if the water drains under the concrete path?

    I was thinking plan B is to add a drain where the water is pooling and pipe it to the existing gutter system or is that overkill?

    Not over kill in my opinion, this is not good.
    Something like this might be easier to work with
    https://www.ebay.ie/itm/322846716644

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Not over kill in my opinion, this is not good.
    Something like this might be easier to work with
    https://www.ebay.ie/itm/322846716644

    There's a fairly wide channel on that particular one.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    Put in an eco drain and link it up to the down pipe drain . Not a big job.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    There's a fairly wide channel on that particular one.


    My local green grocer got them fitted in the back alley as ground was compacted and flooded easily,got digger in and added a 2 foot wide cement base with those drains incorporated and looks fantastic and shop now dry.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    greasepalm wrote: »
    My local green grocer got them fitted in the back alley as ground was compacted and flooded easily,got digger in and added a 2 foot wide cement base with those drains incorporated and looks fantastic and shop now dry.:D

    Whoosh...........

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭Cerco


    Is that down pipe blocked at the bottom?
    Not that that would solve the pooling problem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    Doubt it as its a hard surface water has no where to run off to.Even my patio was under 1 1/2 water after a very bad shower and that was 2 x 2 slabs in a large area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Looks like a cowboy tarmacadam job was done boss.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭WEST


    Cerco wrote: »
    Is that down pipe blocked at the bottom?
    Not that that would solve the pooling problem

    Down pipe is not blocked thank god. Will look into the Eco drain or steel drain linked by Calahonda52.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    WEST wrote: »
    Hi,
    I moved into a house a few months ago and after a shower of rain water tends to pool by the side of the house. I have attached two pics showing this.

    There is no sign of dampness inside the house at the moment but do you know if this could cause damage to the house long term? Foundation damage, or rising dampness etc.
    Considering that there are minimum distances required between soakaways and houses then it would make sense that water soaking away right beside the foundations would not be good for the house. Also, the earth rod cover seems to be underwater which can't be good for the connections long term.

    The suggestions that you run a channel drain to the existing surface water drain is a good one but will require quite a bit of work and you may have to install an s-bend depending how you join it to the surface water drain.

    One other possibility, if the tarmac is meant to channel the water away from the house to a drain or to nearby ground then it may be possible to compress the tarmac to direct the water away from the house. It's not always possible but there may be a point where you can compress the tarmac by a couple of centimetres and it would drain the water to a lower point. I've seen people doing this with ride-on rollers but there may be some other way of doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    It is a basic principle in laying pathways, driveways etc that the fall is away from the house towards a garden preferably, or a drain. From those photos, it looks like the fall is towards the house? If it were me, I'd consider a new tarmac job with the falls away from the house. Expensive but a better long term solution. Pools of standing water beside your home are never a good thing. At best you'll get slippy paths with moss and algae. Driling holes in the tarmac will cause longer term issue when water drips down the holes, freezes and lifts/cracks the tarmac. You could think about drilling a few holes in that aj cover as a short term solution to let the water drain into the shore perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    D13exile wrote: »
    It is a basic principle in laying pathways, driveways etc that the fall is away from the house towards a garden preferably, or a drain. From those photos, it looks like the fall is towards the house? If it were me, I'd consider a new tarmac job with the falls away from the house. Expensive but a better long term solution. Pools of standing water beside your home are never a good thing. At best you'll get slippy paths with moss and algae. Driling holes in the tarmac will cause longer term issue when water drips down the holes, freezes and lifts/cracks the tarmac. You could think about drilling a few holes in that aj cover as a short term solution to let the water drain into the shore perhaps?

    Looks like the tarmac is a new addition. The original area around the house is indeed falling from the house, however it now seems to run into a new section that runs back towards the house.

    I'd second adding some holes to the drain cover, but longer term you need a new drain at the lowest spot and connect this up to the existing drainage.


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