In article , darkangel5
@REMOVETHISBITlineone.net says...

Have posted a similar question in UK D-I-Y, but thought I would ask in here
also.

Got a slight problem round the back of my parents house.

The path/paved area separating the back of the house from the garden has
nowhere for the water to run off. The path/paving slopes to the centre of
the house and away, but there's a raised bed between the path and the lawn,
so the water just pools up in the middle, until it slowly drains away
between the cracks in the paving.

This isn't a problem during light rain, but in the event of a heavy storm
takes time. Plus, I've been trying to jetwash the path to get rid of the
winter moss, and had to give up as I was just padding in muddy water.

Here's a pic following my attempts to Jetwash (raised bed on the right)
http://www.clipsfromthecryptserver1.com/temp/water.jpg

To be fair, the paving could do with relaying, but as they're probably going
to be selling the property in a couple of years don't want to spend the
money.

I was therefore wondering if I could improvise a soakaway by removing one of
the slabs, digging a hole underneath and filling with gravel and placing the
slab back on top, to give water somewhere to drain to?

Would that work? Don't really want to be doing tons of digging, or turfing
up the beds or relaying slabs.

Sounds too small to me. I made one 15 years ago which is a metre cube,
and still works well.

I followed the advice of ex-urgler Tony , professional paver

http://www.pavingexpert.com/drain08.html

Janet.