Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Oct 02, 2013 3:20 pm I'm having stumps put in place but I've been told that there is too much water and I will need to put a cut off drain in along the side of our house-to-be. We're on a fairly wet hill in Gippsland, Victoria. Yabbies like the place. We did some substantial excavation earlier on and sculpted the land to drain water away from the house site. This obviously hasn't been enough or taken care of water underground. It has been quite wet lately. Our soil was rated as M. The suggestion I've had from those putting the the stumps in (which is now on hold), is to dig a cut off drain about 1.5 metres deep along the hilly side of the building site. I was wondering if this sounds right and if anyone has had experience with something like this? Re: Cut off drainage for stump holes? 3Oct 08, 2013 4:04 pm Thanks for that. Hopefully it will do the job. We've dug the trench to see how it goes and if we need to dig any deeper. We'll then do the agi pipe and rock. As for where it's coming from, higher on the hill I would guess. it depends on the natural ground level, if they excavated their boundary wall needed to be built as a retaining wall. If you filled, which sounds like the case then you… 1 5076 I know foam has been around since the 90's and CSR started manufacturing Hebel in 1989, so it's definitely possible 5 4123 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place - Iām new to the property/building journey (trying to buy my first home) so not sure where/who to go with these sorts of… 0 14197 |