costa
2016-03-13 18:45:23
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Hello everyone,
in addition to the drainage already installed around the house by the construction company, I also want to create drainage around my terrace and behind a garden wall. Although this is not necessarily needed based on the experience of the recent rainy days, I prefer to put in a bit more work now as part of the landscaping and avoid problems later.
Setup:
I am currently planning to dig appropriate trenches and first place about 10 cm of gravel in them. Then, with the proper slope, the drainage pipe and next to and on top of it more gravel. The top 10 cm should then be filled with topsoil on which grass will later grow.
The recommendation from the civil engineer was to use gravel 0/32 (smallest grain 0 mm, largest grain 32 mm) because it is capillary-breaking. Therefore, no drainage fleece around the pipe or around the "gravel package" would be necessary.
However, most "construction manuals" for drainage describe that the entire "drainage package" should be wrapped in appropriate fleece. Wrapping the drainage pipe itself directly (e.g., with a special sleeve) is usually discouraged.
Question:
What is correct now?
Gravel 0/32 is already ordered. Should I wrap the "drainage package" in fleece for safety, or is it unnecessary?
Thank you very much for your help.
Normally, you lay the drainage on the ground; the water is supposed to flow into it, not underneath. Gravel 0/32 so that it washes the fine particles into the pipe? That’s actually the reason for the fleece. Use gravel 16/32, and that’s fine.