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    Ongoing saga of drainage problems

    To New Home Expert Thanks for your comments. We are fully aware that Stewart Milne have installed drainage into our garden over and above the NHBC 3m ruling. However as mentioned before these are not draining the garden effectively and the garden remains like a swamp. Stewart Milne have had...
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    Ongoing saga of drainage problems

    To New Home Expert Many thanks for your comments. Stewart Milne used contractors to install a network of field drains in our garden. These drains were 0.5m deep and 0.25m wide and were filled with stone with perforated pipe all wrapped in terram. The drains were then covered with soil. We...
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    Ongoing saga of drainage problems

    Hi Divi We are located in a Stewart Milne development in South Lanarkshire. I have read your post about poor garden drainage and we have very similar problems. We too believe that putting in drains without knowing the soil composition is a waste of time as the fabric of the drain silts up...
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    Ongoing saga of drainage problems

    Last autumn we were so excited buying our new Stewart Milne home complete with "Landscape gardens with compliments". What a joke!What they don't tell you is that the designer worked at the "Everglades in Florida" and not at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The only alligators here were the...
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