Too much water

The recent heavy rains in January proved to be too much for our road to cope with.  The road out the front of our house is a dirt road and there is a culvert just to the right of our property.  The culvert flooded as the dirt from the road and surrounding properties blocked the…

Trouble at mill. . . . .

This is in our driveway. We are not sure what has caused it but we thought it might have something to do with some plumbing repairs we had done last year. We thought it could be that or it was underground drainage.  Strange that it is the first time this has happened in the twelve…

Some remedial garden work

After a particularly heavy downpour a few weeks ago we had issues with our paving at the back of the house.  This area has a drain that runs the length of the house and takes away the runoff from the sloped part of the garden.  The rain was so heavy that the drain couldn’t cope…

Dry riverbed provided wonderful drainage in the storm

For those of you who have followed this blog since we constructed our dry riverbed in the front garden, I thought you might like to see how well it coped with the downpour we had yesterday.  We had 14mm in five minutes, that is a considerable amount of rain.  The riverbed coped beautifully. A little…

Dry river bed update

Our son is staying with us at the moment and the work on our dry river bed has moved forward at incredible speed.  I have helped with the carrying of the rocks by the bucketful but the bulk of the work has been done by our son. This is at the end of day 1….

Dry river bed

The front garden of our home has a slope down which excess water flows, causing erosion on the slope and a drainage problem.  We are planning to eliminate the problem by building a dry river bed. Hopefully this will improve drainage. This is the front garden as it is now.  We plan to put the…