Adamc

This is the right side of the wall it's finishes going into the neighbours wall. As I'm taking the ground level up 2 blocks at the front I could essentially get a diamond cutter, taking the drainage pipe exit as close to the bottom of the wall as possible dig a trench directing pipe away into the garden, as it's chalk it should easily drain away, and you won't see the pipe as it'll be under the ground. Thoughts? And thanks for all your replies, really appreciate it. Sorry about the bad drawing 😅

@Tosh funnily enough the water was there after a night of rain but drained away during the day, in answer to your question re the front of the wall that is just where the ground slopes down to the footing that I dug for the wall, I intend to fill and level to around 2 bricks up from the base, with natural soil and free draining gravel. I did think the land drain would need to be on the as close to the bottom as I could get it, then again we have a very free draining soil around these parts so maybe weep holes in the wall would suffice.

Hi I'm wondering if someone can give me a bit of advice, I have recently started a project to build a 1.1metre high retaining wall at the top of my garden, the ground is chalk, the footing was 45-50cm wide, 35cm deep, this was filled with 25cm of concrete. The wall, having not built one before I'm fairly chuffed with. I plan to put weep holes in at intervals and also a drainage pipe at the back with the shingle etc , 1st question is how far from the base of the wall does this need to be placed to work as it should? The ground level on the front side is higher by 30cm at a finished level so i planned to have two outlets either end of the wall about 10cm above this level, this would mean the drainage pipe behind the wall would be around 45cm above the base footing taking into account the drop off needed for drainage. Would this be too high for the drainage to work as intended. 2nd question there is a lot of water currently sitting infront of the wall and behind on the footing, will this be an issue once I've done the above? Should I be directing the water away from the front of the wall also? Thanks Adam the DIY(er)