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Whether it be a soak away, installing drainage for your extension, a French drain installed to stop rising damp issues, or to divert water, Top Joints can carry the works out for you efficiently and effective. Good drainage is important for ensuring that a home or property stays dry and free of mould. If ground water collects in the basement / trenches, it is not only an inconvenient eyesore, it can also lead to wood rot and mould; creating health problems for those most sensitive to mould. A soak away is a very effective way of dealing with surface water, and to divert storm water when building an extension / conservatory.
R & L Preservation offer a large range of services which range from rising damp and waterproofing treatments to specialised timber treatments and surveys. A French drain is required when the outside ground levels are higher than the internal floor levels. An effective way to remedy this is to dig a recommend depth and width channel around the perimeter of the house and back fill it with shingle, this allowing water to drain below the damp proof course and prevent it from bridging the existing damp proof course.
The common French drain design is a simple way to move and disperse rain water that sits in an area. You must design your French drain carefully and place it efficiently. This is the same for a French drain for downspouts or any drain. The best way to do this is to draw the site in a simple plan showing were the rain water lies or where the ground is just very wet and never dries out. Then work out a lower patch of dryer ground for a soak away pit or connection to a storm water drain, manhole or ditch.
We are garden and lawn drainage contractors specialising in draining domestic gardens, solving waterlogging, soggy lawns, boggy soil and surface water problems with solutions that work, even on clay soil. In most cases without major hard landscaping or raising garden surfaces. We have not suddenly appeared as a reaction to recent flooding of the Somerset levels and Thames valley or recent record rainfall, we have been installing French drains for many years, both as a necessity and for the past 10 years as a business.
Due to our ever changing weather conditions it has become advisable to install garden drainage and soak away systems where required in order to disperse and manage waterlogged and soggy ground. Many types are available and we at Gwynedd Landscapes have the expertise and experience in providing cost effective solutions. Land Drainage works by providing and open conduit for ground water to follow into a disposal point. This is more commonly know as a French Drain System. A series of trenches are dug along the waterlogged area and a series of 4 inch porous pipes are laid on a bed of pea gravel and then the trench is backfilled with more pea gravel.