Drain Repair · Part 1 — Disaster in Klirou — the soil washout
By Greg the Geeza · 8 October 2026
Just when you think you’re getting somewhere… FFS. This is all I needed.
Yesterday, about two and a half hours of torrential rain left us with another problem to sort. Water flooded the garden, found the drainage outlet and carried soil away from behind the retaining wall.
A setback we hadn’t budgeted for.
We’ve been building this garden one job at a time, working with what we’ve got and watching every euro. Now there’s a washed-out strip beside the wall that needs assessing before we carry on.
Runoff came into the garden from the gate area, on top of the rain falling directly onto it. We had flooding back in June too, but this time the soil loss was worse.
Work is on hold.
The next job is to understand the water’s route and work out how to stop it carrying the soil away again. Simply filling the gap and hoping for the best won’t answer that.
We haven’t settled on a repair yet. I’ll share the next update once we’ve assessed the problem and worked out how to tackle it.
The garden footage is real. The closing caricature was created with AI.
— Greg the Geeza
Update: see the first rain test
