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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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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

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...

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'Charlie Pridham[_2_ Wrote:
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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?




-
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

rockery
 

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