Water sitting against wall

[opps]

My block paving pools water near my front door. I drilled a couple of holes through the wall between my neighbour's and our house. The water now runs in to his garden (and drains away nicely)...

I do have to push a twig through the holes from time to time to dislodge the sand/etc.

Initially, I drilled directly down, those holes clog very quickly.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Just fill them with sand.

 

[opps]

Thank you to everyone for all the info. Here are a few more pictures.
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You may find that using an angle grinder to make some subtle channels will allow the water to get past the step.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Probably a few holes through the base of the wall will do it, depending on if the wall can take it, then poked with a stick when they clog up. That or carve a channel into the concrete down to a lower spot by the step though it's not clear if the levels will allow that.

edit Doh! beaten to it.

 

[DiyNutJob]

Probably a few holes through the base of the wall will do it, depending on if the wall can take it

Not convinced anyone can beat you to it. Drilling holes in wall to flood house now, is it?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

hank you to everyone for all the info. Here are a few more pictures.

Now, with a better idea of how and where the water is collecting, now we have the photos....

To me, it looks as if the concrete is levelled so it drains away from the house wall, but is being prevented, by that row of stone sets, between the concrete and the garden. Note in the first photo, that the concrete remains damp, alongside the stone sets. I would therefore suggest a quick fix would drill some weep holes, through the mortar joints, sloping down, through to the soil.

 

[opps]

Not convinced anyone can beat you to it. Drilling holes in wall to flood house now, is it?

I suspect that he was talking about drilling in to the dwarf wall on the garden wall.

 

[tomm12]

Paulw I asked you a couple of questions above?

Water can penetrate the bricks below the outside skin dpc and if the cavity is bridged with rubbish it can then cross and climb above the inner skin dpc. In that case it will affect the interior.

Having a rainwater pipe shoe is wrong, the pipe should be discharging down into the gulley not across & out.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Drilling holes in wall to flood house now, is it?

Surely only an idiot or a troll would think I meant drilling holes in the house wall?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Surely only an idiot or a troll would think I meant drilling holes in the house wall?

Well, you didn't make it clear which wall you were indicating, and the row of stone blocks do not form a wall.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Well I don't think you're a troll so you must be the first one.

 

[DiyNutJob]

Well I don't think you're a troll so you must be the first one.

That thing is called a boarder. Don't know why you tell people to drill their wall. If the OP did drill holes in the boarder, more water will flood in from the higher ground. So, you really are trying to flood the house.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Maybe, he won't know unless he tries, perhaps he needs to make a bit of a french drain on the driveway side of the wall, there's gravel there anyway. If it doesn't work he can always pour some coarse sand in the holes to block them up again, then get his angle grinder out.