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3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I am no groundworker but what about installing a fin drain and shingle along my blue line?

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Are you thinking of a drain to help stop a waterfall running down the slope if I use tarmac?

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Should have asked this a while ago, do you have a budget (might have missed that bit).

 

I'd be tempted to put a drain along both sides, stop run off running off onto the drive and take whatever falls onto it when it is raining. Could link them both to the existing ones down the slope.

 

A couple of surface drains over the slope part to reduce the amount of water onto the road - the type with a grid on top (fewer trip hazards on the way back from the local).

 

Wasn't it the Romans who worked out that if you can get rid of the water then the roads lasted a lot longer?

 

 

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1 hour ago, Steven P said:

Should have asked this a while ago, do you have a budget (might have missed that bit).

 

I'd be tempted to put a drain along both sides, stop run off running off onto the drive and take whatever falls onto it when it is raining. Could link them both to the existing ones down the slope.

 

A couple of surface drains over the slope part to reduce the amount of water onto the road - the type with a grid on top (fewer trip hazards on the way back from the local).

 

Wasn't it the Romans who worked out that if you can get rid of the water then the roads lasted a lot longer?

 

 

Willing to chuck a few quid at it, would rather spend £4k and have it last 20 years than spend £1k and have it last a year. Just plucked these figures out of mid air and no idea if they are in the right area.

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Put a drain at the bottom of the slope - don't tarmac the slope this will make any water problem worse.

You could put a drain near the house - but not sure how much it would be used if the first one is doing it's work.

 

I would do the drain and then let it settle and see how it is. Basically if you have the water away what you surface it with is down to you.

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