A son wants to buy some long metal drain covers, the sort used in car parks and the like. I thought they were over french drains but I'm not sure.
Can anyone suggest a source, preferably in Yorkshire?
TIA
Mary
Drain covers
Sep 11, 2004
16 Replies
Any 'proper' builders merchant should be able to supply these especailly those who stock concrete paviors and 'heavyside'materials. Don't expect the sheds to carry them though
Oh good! I told him that :-)
Thanks,
Mary
Wickes sell them. They come in different qualites depending upon how much load they will need to take.
Rick
Here in Ireland, I've seen them in B&Q.
Francis
Larger market - it rains more....
.andy
To email, substitute .nospam with .gl
In Ireland, there are leprechauns and fairies at the bottom of the garden as well
Indeed, but with the changing weather patterns (as the unfortunate villagers of Boscastle will know) maybe sheds will start stocking them in the UK too.
Francis
No, leprechauns live at the end of the rainbow, as for "fairies at the bottom" he moved to Channel 4.
Francis
Do fairies have bottoms?
Mary
I was about to say that too
Dave
Elephants have Big Ears.
Francis
I thought that was Noddy.
Titania was Queen of the fairies. Titania had a Bottom. There! I've answered my own question :-)
Mary
Wickes have these, whether they're competetive like-for-like with a proper BM I don't know. The trouble with this system for drainage is that it's *ugly*, and the troughs silt up easily, and the covers are prone to damage, and things fall into them, and.... IMO it's far better & nicer to use a couple of yard gullies.
J.B.
No, Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom!
Francis
Oh - I asked for that :-)
Mary
Well, it depends on the application :-) I don't think they're ugly anyway but it's what the little lad wants not me!
Mary
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