The stables

I think I’d have to go out about half way into the lane to get the right gradient and at the widest point is about 3m, and it’s about 11m long. Any ideas roughly how much that might cost? Wouldn’t need to be the posh smooth stuff they use on driveways just cheap rough stuff would do since it is essentially just a lane. What about concreting it, I’m guess that might be cheaper?

Ok so you guys were right, I took the tops off the drains and almost filled a rubble bucket with the sludge. Even with the bit of rain we’re had since it’s mostly drained away. Were just left left with this standing water now. What would you recommend to level the lane off onto the drain so the remaining water runs off? Im going to get up the stuff that’s down at the moment as is mostly dirt and keeps coming loose and filling up the drain. Hardcore or road planings or something else? I think tarmac is going to be too expensive.

Cheers Carrerahill, I suggested one of these initially rather than the aco we’ve got in but went with the builders suggestion. Wish I hadn’t as the above would be so much easier to sweep out and looks like it would take more water away as it’s a bit more commercial. Also the metal tops on the aco are all getting nackered from stones getting on them and then driving over. I’ll have to go and price some up

Purchased for now to stop all the rubbish coming in the end of the channel. Thanks

Thanks for the advice. So so essentially you mean install something similar to what’s in but wider and with an open top rather than the metal covers so it can be easily cleared? This is half the problem, lane traffic plus us driving on and off the drive quickly fills the channel up with rubbish. Plus I’ve had to put hardcore from the channel out to the lane to level it slightly to prevent damage to the edge of the channel when driving on and off and this keeps coming loose and filling the channel up. The drain it eventually runs into is our neighbours, he doesn’t seem to have much of an issue with it but would probably have an issue if I officially ripped up the lane and put a proper pipe all the way into it. Thought about somehow connecting it to our drainage but on septic tank with soakaway and and this lane water would probably fill it in no time and also not sure you should really be connecting surface water drainage to septic tank.

Hi, on the bottom pic you can see the concrete section, its literarily just a pipe that ends where you can see that concrete ends and it runs off down the lane, about 15m round that corner is a grid which it eventually ends up running into. I think the drain may have some crap in it, I’ll clean it out this weekend but I think the run off is probably not enough to take all of the water away.

We live part way down a farm track and the end of our drive is in a bit of a dip. It’s a barn conversion and when converted looks like they decided not to put any drainage in. We put a channel drain along the edge of the driveway however it looks like there’s not enough run off for the water to flow away. Would be grateful for any suggestions for how best to resolve this before we spend even more money trying to sort it.