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We have a garden shed which is built on to a five foot rockery..Every time we have heavy rain, it seeps through on to the shed floor..Is there anything we could seal the rockery with to stop this?
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says... We have a garden shed which is built on to a five foot rockery..Every time we have heavy rain, it seeps through on to the shed floor..Is there anything we could seal the rockery with to stop this? I think I may have missunderstood, if the shed is on the rockery why should rain come into the shed? (except of course the roof leaking!)or do you mean the rockery is piled up against one side of the shed? in which case the solution is to build a retaining wall to hold back the rockery then place the shed against it leaving an air gap. (would have thought your shed would rot pretty quickly if its like that though) -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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"solaara" wrote ... We have a garden shed which is built on to a five foot rockery..Every time we have heavy rain, it seeps through on to the shed floor..Is there anything we could seal the rockery with to stop this? Like Charlie, I too am a little confused as to the actual situation but if the shed is alongside the rockery and water comes through the side of the shed then seal it with a pond liner between the shed and the rockery. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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says... 'Charlie Pridham[_2_ Wrote: ;750820']In article , says...- We have a garden shed which is built on to a five foot rockery..Every time we have heavy rain, it seeps through on to the shed floor..Is there anything we could seal the rockery with to stop this? - I think I may have missunderstood, if the shed is on the rockery why should rain come into the shed? (except of course the roof leaking!)or do you mean the rockery is piled up against one side of the shed? in which case the solution is to build a retaining wall to hold back the rockery then place the shed against it leaving an air gap. (would have thought your shed would rot pretty quickly if its like that though) -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea The builder actually built the shed so that the rockery would form the fourth wall..bit of a daft idea..so there is no chance of making a retaining wall... Perhaps you can make a drainage channel along the base of the wall in question going through to outside, would at least get rid of the water coming in, you can buy the channel cheaply enough and it come with a grating. But yes it was not one of your builders better ideas! -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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solaara writes
The builder actually built the shed so that the rockery would form the fourth wall..bit of a daft idea..so there is no chance of making a retaining wall... I used to live in a house built into a hill, so that on the lowest floor the chalk rock of the hillside formed the back wall. That had simply been plastered over. The floor was bricks standing straight on the earth. We had a plastic sheet over the floor, and the mat and all the furniture stood on that. I presume the place was still damp, but as long as nothing was in direct contact with either the floor or the back wall, nothing rotted. The floor in question was our kitchen and main living room. I think the difference between us and your shed was that the basic rock was porous, so no matter how heavy the rain, we never had running water - it all soaked into the chalk. -- Kay |
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