Amber Ormerod wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Ah, right. A two-foot diameter soakaway isn't a soakaway at all
unless you're on the kind of broken rock that doesn't need it
anyhow.
Tell all your friends who did the job.

What actually happens at present? Do you get puddles, or squidgy
bits
of ground where you don't want them? Where I'm heading is, does it
actually matter? Most people don't have separate drainage for
their
greenhouses, and never notice any inconvenience. A minor patch of
wet
ground could be cured simply by laying a deepish gravel path. How
often do you have so much water coming _out_ of the greenhouse?

Hi,

the problem is a little bit more severe than that, as the sump
whole
isn't draining at all, the water is just sitting in the pipe.

it doesn't get used very often, only for a bit of watering
etc....but
as the sink is underneath the concrete base of the greenhouse, its
difficult to work on - hence the idea for the work round

very low volumes i agree, but still gotta go somewhere - sorry if
previous post was unclear.

cheers

So you get water lying on the floor of the greenhouse? The floor
should have had a gentle slope built in, but that can't be helped
now. I'd consider breaking up the concrete down the middle of the
greenhouse and making it into a self-draining path, forgetting about
the sump altogether. Or a neat duckboard, or a row of those rubber or
plastic grid-type doormats: this would make sterilizing easier.

--
Mike.