"kitey" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have just moved into a 2nd hand house and the garden is very boggy.

I have spoken to my next door neighbour who has dug a 6ft soakaway,
and could not get through the clay layer :-(

Would a posible option be to pepper the lawn with 1m deep 100mm wide
holes filled with gravel?

If so what distance should the holes be apart e.g. every 6ft ?

I dug (over a period of days) a soak hole for my garage. I went down about 5
foot 6 inchs, thats a little over 1 1/2 metres, still in the clay layer but
deep enought to cope with run off the roof. Just try digging a little deeper
than your neighbour. It really is good fun digging, really it is, really.
Great way to spend a spring holiday.

rob

even better is crawling under your house installing polystyrene insulation