Not as exciting as it sounds!
I have had a patio area outside my house relaid. The builders have gone and today in the rain, I notice that a pool of water is forming against the rendered wall of the house.
Is this acceptable/ a problem / nothing to worry about? If a worry, is there a solution without taking the whole lot up again?
I have put a pic at:
away from the house, so no water should pool against the house wall.
The rim you see in the pic is the water level, about 8mm above the patio level and up the wall.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember lemmy saying something like:
before the patio was laid the rain was soaking into the ground at the base of the wall anyway. I'd do something to get the water away from lying against the wall.
I suppose the builders legged it with your cheque before the rain came.
But it could be that the water across the entire patio is now draining towards the house - which would be much more than just what was hitting the ground before.
It is bad.
Where is the DPM on your house wall? How much higher than the patio?
If it is just the final flag, then as Grimly said. If it is more, about all I can think of is cutting slots across the patio to allow the water to drain the other way - maybe in combination with holes.
Or invite Uri Geller - I am sure he could do something to ensure the water flows against gravity. :-)
I would invite him to do it but he'd probably bend all my drainpipes too.
Looks to me like I'll have to get it re-done.
I thought the render had to stop before the ground (patio).
Its hard to say if its raining as it will puddle even on a slope if its heavy rain. It just runs away as soon as the water stops arriving.
In message , lemmy writes
a photo with a bit more useful context might be of use
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