Flooding the Garage: The Truth About Driveway Drainage
Paving over your front lawn looks great, but if the contractor doesn't sort the drainage, the rainwater runs straight into your garage. Here is how we stop it.
The Rainwater Trap
People want a big new resin or block driveway so they don't have to cut the grass anymore.
Grass drinks the rain. If you dig it up and lay a hard surface, that water has to go somewhere. Usually, it runs straight down the slope and right under your garage door.
The Cheap Pour
A lot of blokes just turn up, pour the resin or lay the blocks, and take the money.
They don't actually look at where the water is going to run. If they don't get the falls right, or if they skip putting drains in to save a few quid, you end up stepping into a massive puddle every time you walk out the front door.
Sorting the Drains
You can't just pave over a garden and walk away. Building regulations say you have to manage the surface water on your own property.
Before any paving goes down, we sort the drainage out. We dig deep soakaways under the ground so the water has somewhere to drain into. We also fit heavy-duty channel drains right across the front of the garage and the main entrance.
Taking the Rain
It means when the heavy winter rain hits, the water runs exactly where we tell it to. It hits the channel drain and disappears straight into the ground.
No massive puddles at the front door, and no water getting inside the garage.
Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.
