Drainage question

[MassiveJim]

Having recently installed a new patio that slopes away from my property.

I thought it would be easy enough when cleaning it to sweep towards the drain at the top of the patio, this is proving quite hard work though.
So I am now thinking of installing a drain channel at the bottom to stop the lawn becoming water logged if I sweep down the patio away from the property.

If I were to install a drain channel there is no easy way to connect to a soakaway or any existing drain channels.

What I could do is spread the drainage of the patio to the rest of the lawn.

how do I distribute the water over the rest of the lawn, is it simply a case of putting in perforated pipe under the lawn with the holes facing down ?


Unfortunately the lawn is also freshly laid (turf, 2 weeks old) so I would want to try and do this with a single pipe so that I only have to dig one channel and cause the least amount of disruption to the lawn possible.


Would this actually work though ?

 

[Maccapacca]

Aco channel of your choice and a soakaway at the end unless you have a surface water drain somewhere near.

Or a french drain but that would mean a strip of gravel which would be a pain.

 

[Maccapacca]

http://www.aconews.co.uk/uploads/4BA8C297_9FAA.jpg


Like that but in reverse

 

[DXP55]

You are trying to sweep water "up hill" ??

Hmmmm !!

Dave

 

[MassiveJim]

Having chatted with a mate here at work I may be creating extra work for the sake of it here.

Realistically a patio gets cleaned once or twice a year,it may be better just to live with it unless the grass starts to become waterlogged during heavy rainfall.

The reason to sweep uphill was simply to keep any cleaning chemicals we may use on the patio out of the grass, and just to make sweeping the water generally easier.

 

[koooowweeee]

French drains