Hello.

I have a drainpipe that’s broken so it’s pissing water down, however my garden looks like this normally whenever the rain is heavy.

The water isn’t draining away properly on this part of the garden and I really need to solve it as I’m getting worried about the integrity of the wall of my house.

I’m thinking of buying some very shallow ridge tiles and cementing them in at an angle to allow water to runoff straight into the drain on the second picture.

But I also wanted advice on what to do about the water that’s butted up against my house for hours / days at a time.

In the second picture if you look closely you can see a lot of moss/algae growing on the lower bricks.

Maybe dig a french drain? It's just a pit with rocks in it essentially.

Ah not a bad idea actually. I could get some of that nice purple slate which we already have around the garden, cement a simple ramp and then level it off with the purple rocks?

You want large to small rocks covered with dirt. Large at the bottom.

So how does the water get channeled into the drain?

You said it's already pooling right?

Yeah it’s pooling beyond the fence on the garden side, so I guess having an angled downwards course to send the water straight into the drain is what I need.

A French drain starts with a pitched trench. Grading away from the start of the drain. You lay filter fabric in the trench. Add a small layer of clean 2b stone. Lay your pvc drain pipe (drilled holes down) into your trench. Fill remainder of trench with clean stone. Take the flaps of your filter fabric overlap them to close the stone filled trench. The fabric will keep dirt from infiltrating your drain system. I personally would top the drain channel with 1-3inch decorative river rock. You can terminate the end of the drain to day light or with a pop up.

Sounds that way