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Draining with no gravel
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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7465142" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>We've used wrapped. All in ochre and sand, but slightly differently soil types. Some are still running great 9 years later. Some put in 11 years ago are slowing up. Can get at them all with jetter though, so think had better ring the contractor.</p><p></p><p>When running ditches are brown, and an algae like scum comes out of the drains.</p><p></p><p>One retired drainage man told me to keep drain ends under water, as the scum only grows if it can get oxygen. Don't know if that's true. </p><p></p><p>Ours were laid without stone, and no trouble with them drawing water. Local contractor uses filter wrapped plus stone on sand land. Would the stone help with ochre I'm wondering?</p><p></p><p>Pots would be better than filter wrapped plastic imho. Presume either can't get them or prohibitively expensive and need right shoot and labour intensive.</p><p></p><p>We've little fall either, so unwrapped pipe would probably silt up, even with regular jetting I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7465142, member: 23184"] We've used wrapped. All in ochre and sand, but slightly differently soil types. Some are still running great 9 years later. Some put in 11 years ago are slowing up. Can get at them all with jetter though, so think had better ring the contractor. When running ditches are brown, and an algae like scum comes out of the drains. One retired drainage man told me to keep drain ends under water, as the scum only grows if it can get oxygen. Don't know if that's true. Ours were laid without stone, and no trouble with them drawing water. Local contractor uses filter wrapped plus stone on sand land. Would the stone help with ochre I'm wondering? Pots would be better than filter wrapped plastic imho. Presume either can't get them or prohibitively expensive and need right shoot and labour intensive. We've little fall either, so unwrapped pipe would probably silt up, even with regular jetting I think. [/QUOTE]
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