Need a concrete base for kennel with drainage bulidng, reccomendations?

[wezza 396]

Lads, need some advice..

 

i will be needing a concrete base installing in my back garden to build my new kennel on. Obviously i would like it with some sort of drainage installed, i have access to a drain point near by from which the guttering from my house goes in to.. Can any one reccomend any one?

 

or if any one knows any one who builds resonably priced kennels please let me know

 

Cheers

[toby63 1,236]

do a base yaself mate get a mixer cement and a grab bag of mixed ballast water and away you go. Get sum 3x2 down in place and peg it down and start mixing.me and mate did a base 4inch thick 2mx2m.

[fredthefrog 169]

fook mixin it pal its as cheap to buy these days an less hassle loads of companys just charge ye for what you want dont have to be a set amount ye can get half a metre or what ever bit ye need obviously costs go on top but its cheap as chips to buy in rather then mix it beleive me if ye do save any dollar by time ye mixed it ye woulda wished to pay that bit extra for delivery..keep us posted how ye go an put some piccys up as ye do it all the best marra...

[paulus 26]

Lads, need some advice..

 

i will be needing a concrete base installing in my back garden to build my new kennel on. Obviously i would like it with some sort of drainage installed, i have access to a drain point near by from which the guttering from my house goes in to.. Can any one reccomend any one?

 

or if any one knows any one who builds resonably priced kennels please let me know

 

Cheers

do it yourself and just run a plasic drain channel down to the sewer pipe or into a soakaway

[wezza 396]

Thanks for the advice lads..

 

Some novice questions... Here goes..

 

I have one problem being that I live in a mid terrace and access to my back garden can only be accessed through my house or at a push if I speak with next door and remove a fence panel and use his walkway. This means I getting gear in to my back garden is a bit of a chew on.

If I went down the route of getting a mix dropped off, what would they drop it in? as I would have to take it through in a barrow which may take some time

 

If I was to hire a mixer and station it in my garden and make my own mix obviously this would take some time to fill my shuttering so would the cement be ok and not set in the time it takes for me to fill the wood work and level it?

 

Regarding draining this has been doing my nut in because the drain I want to use is the only drain in my garden and this is where the guttering falls in to, this is right up against the wall under my kitchen window, how would I connect into this? Considering The base will be right next to it?

 

What is a soak away?

 

Sorry for th daft questions lads but as you can tell I'm no Builder haha!!

[paulus 26]

you can get it piped over the roof and heres some info on soakaways also called french drains http://www.google.co...Q9QEwAA&dur=240

[fredthefrog 169]

some firms will help barrow it to were you need it mate

[wezza 396]

Again thanks for the info lads..

 

With the drain would I lay that within my wooden shuttering obviously before I pour in my mix or is this installed afterwards outside the slab in some sort of housing?

[Qbgrey 4,065]

buy the 40kg bags of ballast and cement and carry to back yard ,then mix up in garden its alot cleaner that way,if you npay for ready mix and a concrete pump to get it round the back your be paying a fortune mate,a soakaway is a pit filled with rubble that takes the rain water off your roof and lets it perculate into te ground,if you pick up dog sit off slab and hose down id just let te water run off into garden.

[wezza 396]

To be honest qbgrey I'm only kennelling one dog as my other two are in the house and like you say I will be picking the shit up anyway so the amount of pee won't be a lot so I'm tempted just to make the slab on a slight gradient and flush away with hose onto grass as this seems like the easiest option. It's just the smell I'm concerned with but I will be keeling it clean and flushing daily so may not be a problem.

 

The 40kg bags of ballast and cement are these pre mixed?

 

The area will be 14.5ft x 6.5ft so not sure on quantitys. I will need

 

Appreciate the help lads, thanks

Edited September 8, 2012 by wezza

[jigsaw 11,863]

Lads, need some advice..

 

i will be needing a concrete base installing in my back garden to build my new kennel on. Obviously i would like it with some sort of drainage installed, i have access to a drain point near by from which the guttering from my house goes in to.. Can any one reccomend any one?

 

or if any one knows any one who builds resonably priced kennels please let me know

 

Cheers

do it yourself and just run a plasic drain channel down to the sewer pipe or into a soakaway

thats exactly what I used on both of the kennells,just wash/hose the power floated floors and straight down the drain and..........GONE FOREVER........AH BLISS,lol.

[jigsaw 11,863]

dont know if you can see but great job.

[wezza 396]

Looks a neat job that mate hope mine turns out as good ha!

[MuddyPaws! 27]

I had a shed load of that drainage paulus has posted.. Unfortunately I moved house and had no were to put it in the new house. I know of people using guttering in the floor. This works better as poop can simply be washed away instead of picked up.

Atb mate

[paulus 26]

Looks a neat job that mate hope mine turns out as good ha!

picking the shite up is all well and good but when you disinfect and then hose onto the grass you end up with no grass and something that looks like a world war 1 battlefield in winter