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Old 30-09-2007, 09:54 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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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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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)
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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