2006-10-18 11:04:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
if your laying on a cement bed you dont need long term drainage, the patio will sort your surface water, short term punch holes in the ground with a garden fork and leave
2006-10-22 10:29:50 · answer #1 · answered by orfeo_fp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go to any reputable building yard and buy drainage pipe which will cost you around 8-10 pounds, dig 18inches down, in a s shape where you want the patio with the end finishing at a main drain, then fill with chuckies or hardcore back up to soil level do not put back any of the clay where you have put the drainage as this will just cause the same problem again. You are now ready to lay the base for your patio. Good Luck.
2006-10-18 22:49:24 · answer #2 · answered by scotlandsno1yummymummy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you putting down a cement pad or a raised patio? If the area is pooling then it's not properly graded. You will first have to regrade the area to drain away from the house and into the swayles or drainage. If you don't have drain swayles, then you really should put some in to prevent water problems in the future. It's hard to fix drainage problems AFTER the cement has been poured!
2006-10-18 11:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by pknutson_sws 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had this problem, I dug multiple channels 12 inches deep into the clay and led them to a water drain (I knocked a brick out so the water could get into the drain) then I filled the channels with pebbles and masonry so they would let water flow, then put clay back on top.
Took me a day to do them all, but never had a flooded area again
2006-10-18 11:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's easy.. use a garden tiller and till regular some sand into it... if you don't have a tiller... you can rent one... water it down good after to help it settle... you may want ot give it some time to see how it drains before starting your patio... you may need to add more sand and till again... don't know the size of the area your talking about... but we had a simular problem... our yard is clay... just like concrete... water just laid there... it wouldn't absorb... we hired someone to till in some sand... hope this helps!!!
2006-10-18 11:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by Sandy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you mean here. Think that you need to dig a trench at the lower end of the slightly sloped patio put in some perforated pipe, cover it with gravel to the top. Level it and put some planters there with some nice dwarf cedars or pot plants or whatever tickles your fancy.
2006-10-18 11:09:25 · answer #6 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
build undergroudn drain pipes that are tilted to drain off to the sides
good luck on it
2006-10-18 11:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by f1avor_f1av 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dig a large hole fill it with loose gravel it could take some of it away its called a sump or a french drain
2006-10-18 11:14:45 · answer #8 · answered by MICHAEL G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soil Amendments. Such as sand and peat.
2006-10-18 11:07:29 · answer #9 · answered by green3ch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put a soak away in
2006-10-20 04:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by taz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋