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We have the same issue!! Had a big old raised patio built right outside the bifold door lol somewhere to go for now. Literally one day of rain and it’s a swamp. The builders ruined the grass where they walked on top of it when it was wet :/ I think our plan is dig down 5 foot around the edge of the patio and put a membrane and then pea shingle on top. We’re second to the bottom on a slant our road so I suspect we get everyone else’s too x

have you managed to sort the issue?

ERG mode is super bad on that trainer

I'll be intrigued on if and how you solve this - I recommended drilling a 6" wide 2 foot deep hole made with an auger to a friend: he made several of these boreholes and filled them with gravel. But..... water actually puddled OUT of the boreholes: basically the clay garden was capping a high water table. Oops.

I have a similar problem in my garden. When it rains the garden becomes very waterlogged. Digging down you hit standing water a couple of inches below the soil. The trouble is my garden is lower than the nearest rainwater drains which are on my drive and is surrounded on all sides by neighbours gardens which also flood (probably worse than mine). Only solution i can think of is to install land drains running to a sump and then pumping the water from there out to the nearest drain.

This looks identical to my newly purchased property in Ont Canada. Oh what work.

my yard is the same all yards here are as we sit on a water table we built on french drain have like two to go when it rains it pours and becomes a lake in the yard.

I had French drains dug and it’s still not stopped the problem. No moss this year after new soil and turf laid but it’s again a bog out there at the minute. Fed up

Hi, not sure if you're still posting ... I don't suppose you're based in Bedfordshire (UK)? We have the same issue, we are at the edge of the Bedfordshire clay basin, bricks were made at Stewartby out of the clay. I am just about to install a major land drainage system as below the clay there are a large number of watercourses, installing a soak away may result in an Artesian Well - water can flow up as well as down !

Where are the next videos??

Did you ever fix this if so how?

Your word and thought process could have been my own over the last couple weeks as I'm facing a similar issue. My clay soil isn't QUITE as red clay as yours is, but I have a hole I dug for a tree last week. A massive hole where I could sit with my body halfway in it. It rained & has been not draining for days now. I just filled up my watering can 7 times and I'm still not at the bottom. I was going to get an augur, but now think that's a pointless expense after watching your video. Gotta figure out something!

Solid clay bed put there by the developers no doubt

How did you get on

Great video thanks

Well this video is worthless......what the heck happened?

I would use solid pipes as I used perforated an it backs up and just floods the lawn. Then dogs can't go out

my garden is the same I'm having to put in layman drains and I will probably need to put in a soaraway at some point this Summer

We just did a complete landscape of our property. Tried french drains. Now we are doing a sump pump.

Thanks Mate. I can't wait to watch how things progressed. Unfortunately my water-logged garden slopes away from my house so I would probably have to use a sump pump to bring the water back up to my drains.

Sounds like an unsuitable area for building on. The local authorities should be aware of this and the local water authorities can then allow you to hook up a drainage system to the main drains provided a percolation test shows the area to be unsuitable for a soakaway. This is at the discretion of the local water authorities, but some can be reasonable. So I would advise an official percolation test first (there is guidance on how to do this so the water authorities will accept the results as a valid test). If they then do allow you to hook up to the drains, I would still put in a big sump then to allow for the silt to settle before it flows into the drains; you would have to clear out that sump every now and then. You say you still hit clay 7 foot down; this _may_ be localised. You can try and drill a fairly large number of 2" diameter holes with an auger, and hope enough of those holes will punch through localised thinner areas of the clay cap, and then fill them with gravel. If this thick clay cap is underneath the whole garden there is little you can do other than dig a sump with French drains and _pump_ it out. You are not allowed to directly _permanently_ connect the sump to the drains except if the local water authorities give you an exemption (see above), but I would simply wait until the weather is dry and then pump it out using a dirty-water submersible pump fitted with a 1" hose to the nearest drain. We had the same issue with a garden that regularly flooded with about half a foot of standing water on top of the lawn, i.e. three quarters of the garden regularly turned into a lake. In order to "deal" with this I dug a large deep hole _in_ _the_ _lowest_ _part_ of the garden, and put a two foot diameter two foot deep plastic tub of a *pebble* *pool* inside it, drilled with holes in the bottom and surrounded on all sides by gravel. Then the metal grating on top which is rated for standing on (up to 250kg). The idea was that whenever the garden fills up with water, I would have a good place to put a submersible dirty-water pump and simply pump out all the water once the weather was dry (i.e. once the drains could cope again). However, I have since then never had to use pump; I noticed when I dug the hole I was hitting a few sand pockets underneath the clay, so I think most of the water is now draining away naturally via the holes in the sump.

So what happened? No more follow up video?

Have you considered using evapotranspiration of subsurface water from roots of large, clay adapted, plants? Sloping to swales and strategically locating clay adapted plants to uptake moisture may help. Roots of trees could enhance percolation of water, as well. I thought the You Tube video "How to Build Swales" was interesting. It is a long term solution but native clay soils are likely a geological event that goes back a significant amount of time. So it stands to reason there aren't quick solutions. In the short term, your only hope is to divert surface sheeting of rain event water with solid wall pipes before it has a chance to get absorbed. Clay soil percolation rates are so slow, french drain approaches will yield less results. If the subsurface movement of water is there, a combination system might work, as well.

So where is the work vid mate

Hi everyone. Came back to almost 60k views. Mental. No updates as of yet, we're deciding what to do with the garden..... whilst saving up for the works (going to be ££££) :( I will post an update once we start for sure.

How did you get on with the works?

Hey Scott, good video interesting feedback. I was wondering if you experienced big differences in the power you give between HT and IRL. Even by doing the calibration via Elite app and set the right wheel circumference, I think my power is overated. (50W delta minimum when pushing hard). Do you observe same results ?

Any update?

Any follow up to this???

Hello… Any updates?

Did you do a follow up video 🤔

Same problem and worse- builders left loads of stones,some quite big and that makes digging nearly impossible.

Hi… did you ever do a follow up video? Thanks

Wow we have the same problem here in our back garden 😮

.. check with your water authority and your building inspector first. Normally unrestricted surface water run off into a private system and then ultimately into an adopted drainage system (either combined or separate) isn’t allowed - especially if it’s field drainage like you’ve suggested. The drainage network in your area probably couldn’t cope if everyone did what you’re doing. Better to be safe than sorry .

Is there a part 2 on this!?

Same problem, considering planting cover crops to make the soil more drainable over time.

i had this problem evrey time dog went out for pee we had to clean her paws, what i did was dig big hole placed a plastic bin in side to stop walls from caving in and then put a pump in and then fed water pipe to gutter drain works well and was only £15 for bin £45 for pump off amazon had it 3 years and we can now plant flowers in the garden and the dog cleaning days are over.

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Where did the rest of the videos go on this? I have exactly the same issue I'm trying to battle with right now!

tip: put something hard (wood) under the middle support and sturdy foam under the side legs. That way you keep stiffness for pedaling but some side way flex. I have the older version of this trainer, this makes the feel much more natural. P.s.: also put something under the frontwheel to keep the bike level.

My little bit of lawn about 3 mtr x 2 mtr. Growing under front window. Old neighbour blocked the natural drainage by building a wall from his house to garage. Stopped my lawn draining downhill slope towards his property then next house. I am still getting rainfall from properties uphill from me. Have all the main utilities entering my property plus I have main phone cable adjoining my wall for the four properties in our terraced block. The 3inch opened ended pipe the phone and internet cables stick about 1 foot up from ground have issues with water. Just give up

There's already a noisy trainer going on, added the music, how do you expect the viewer to hear your voice? you could review this thing on your couch, no?

That's how my lawn looks here in Tennessee, USA. The entire state is chock full of red clay soil.

Did you get this sorted?

Pointless video with no follow up

Hi Scott, any update on your garden?

The contractors/builders have either really screwed up with their construction (layering, compacting etc), or frankly your house is built where it should'n't have been in the first place. Putting in drainage (pipes, gravel...) is not a long term solution. They will eventually clog up with silt and clay particles, effectively becoming useless. Nor is diverting any water to the public sewer system because when everyone does that, it won't be able to handle it and you'll have flooding anyways. Where I am it's already being forbidden...Soaking in situ as much as possible. If it's construction caused, digging down deep, breaking up layers and mixing it into a homogenous soil will be the first step (and costly). Second is to keep off it as much as possible and add organic matter on top to bring life back into it which will rehabilitate it. This isn't an overnight solution; in fact it'll take years, but keep at it, and you might end up with something decent.

Any update on this?

Hi Scott I'm having same problem, how did u get on