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Post by hotrodwidow on May 13, 2014 5:58:30 GMT
Looks amazing...
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Post by malc on May 15, 2014 18:50:20 GMT
It is.....add a WC and a bed, I´d move in today. It´d be a real car guy hang out. Oh !.....forgot....a fridge full o beer...hic
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Aug 17, 2015 8:49:43 GMT
Hi Malc, Well you did ask, so are you sitting comfortably, On the back of the house i have got two downpipes going into two soakaways, the one to the right goes out at 90 degrees to the back of the house then turns 90 degrees and ran alongside of the old garage base. At the end of the old garage base it had a vertical T into it and also took the rainwater off of the old garage aswell. As the new garage is about four times the size of the old garage it seems unlikely that the original soakaway would cope with all the extra water plus half the water from the house roof, hence i dug the soakaway last year in which i put that soakaway crate (page 13 of this thread). Although the crate is about 5 feet down in the ground it appears that at around 6 feet there is another layer of clay so the crate and hole rather than being a soakaway are just a storage tank for the rainwater. So on to plan B, i re-routed the left hand downpipe on the rear of the house and that is capable of taking as much water as you like, i then put a baffle in the guttering just to the left of the right hand downpipe which is about 2/3 the depth of the guttering so now all the rainwater from the roof of the house to left of the right hand downpipe has to travel along the guttering and down the left hand downpipe except if we get a torrential downpour and the guttering cant cope with the volume of water then it should overflow the baffle i put in and go down the right hand pipe, hope this makes sense. With the right hand soakaway no longer having to take any water from the house it should be able to handle all of the new garage roof, so the plan is (was) to dig down to the bottom of the soakaway crate then along parallel with the back of the garage until i intercept the original soakaway pipe then join the two, however finding the pipe that goes to the soakaway is proving difficult to say the least. When Oogie originaly dug out the footings with the JCB we went about 6 inches closer to the house than the old garage was and he caught the soakaway pipe and broke it (obviously we repaired it with new pipe and fittings) so i know 100% that the soakaway pipe is 4 feet down from the left hand corner of the garage. We also put some drain rods up the pipe to check it was clear, from memory i think it was 12 feet before we hit anything and it was definately something solid we hit ie a slab, concrete or brick as you could hear it echo in the pipe. 12 feet from the garage in a straight line would put the soakaway under the lawn. When the house was originaly built there was no garage it was added afterwards and if you look at this picture you can see a line of slabs 1 foot by 2 foot which would be about right for digging a trench to drop a pipe in. To be continued.
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Aug 17, 2015 9:05:03 GMT
If you also look at this picture, you can see the line the slabs were taking in relation to the corner of the garage. Now here we have the new trench we dug looking for the pipe, We are about 8 feet down where i think the pipe should intersect the trench, but no sign of the pipe. Cheers. Russ.
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Aug 17, 2015 9:13:46 GMT
Now, although very unlikely i suppose it is possible the pipe only came out 6 feet from the garage but went another 6 feet deep in which case we could dig forever and never find it,so now we are digging at 90 degrees to the trench straight towards the garage on the basis that we know the pipe is approx 4 feet down from the corner. In hindsight we should have started here in the first place. Cheers. Russ.
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Aug 17, 2015 9:17:35 GMT
You get a lot of soil when you dig out these trenches, Cheers. Russ.
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Post by malc on Aug 17, 2015 19:37:11 GMT
Funny that about the amount of removed soil appearing to be three times the size of the hole !!
We had that when digging footings for one of the extensions, took up so much room in the garden.......eventually we had to bury it. So who´s the guy working in slippers.......RUSS ?
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Sept 1, 2015 19:46:51 GMT
Hi Malc, Guilty, i love my slippers, spend more time in them than i do shoes. Got one or two funny looks when i turned up at Yaxley RnR club in my slippers a couple of weeks ago.............not that pair though, i have got a good pair for going out in, and no i am not joking. Cheers. Russ.
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Sept 1, 2015 20:29:51 GMT
Hi Guys, A few more pics from when we found the original soakaway pipe and T'd into it then made up a concrete tomb out of old paving slabs (braced inside with concrete blocks so they can't be pushed together) which measures 3 feet deep by 18 inches wide by 14 feet long, that coupled with the original meter cube soakaway crate i did last year should give me a total capacity of around 600 gallons so should be more than enough to cope even with the heaviest of downpours. Made sure i took plenty of pictures and measurements in case i ever need to find any of the pipes or cables in the future. Cheers. Russ.
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Post by UK RUSS 1960 OLDS on Sept 1, 2015 20:31:30 GMT
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