Engineer in La Union

          So you are coming from UK, gonna survive by cutting lawns in La Union.  Perhaps Steve could use your services.

Well, there's a thought!!

@kevinwood

Firstly I gather you are looking for someone to design/build a garden for you?

Secondly La Union is a fairly large area so perhaps a bit more specific with your area.

Only a suggestion and I have done it here is visit your local Municipal office, we did that looking for a building engineer and draftsman for our extensions and scored big time, their draftsman and engineer did it for us on the side and was seamless and cheap. Also perhaps talk to your local Barangay Capitan.

The mayor of Angeles city is our neighbour behind and has a rather large holiday house here and has had landscape gardeners working there for months including cranes and installing 20 and 30 ft high palm trees,   truck loads of plants but I believe they were from Pampanga and travelled here.

I have enough trouble trying to find a nursery that sells Bromeliads in our area.

Good luck.

Cheers, Steve.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply, I'm in Bacnotan.

Yes I probably need a landscaper soon, but my immediate concern is to talk to an Engineer about the levels in the lot and how to overcome some issues with a low laying building and surface water run off. I'm glad to say the main house is elevated and should not be an issue.

I'll check out the local Municipal office - Thanks for the tip.

Cheers

Kevin

@kevinwood

I'm in Bacnotan also, Tammocalao off the Luna road

We have a similar problem here with the workers bunk house and lower lying areas on the lot. Like you our main home is raised and about 6 metres above the high tide mark.

The cure for us was a well (concrete base and 2 concrete rings to bring it up to surface/drainage and a 1 HP submersible pump pushing excess water out onto the road that eventually goes back to the ocean, seems to work and not expensive to simply pipe the water to where you want.

Before we did that the water was 3/4 ft deep where we put the pump and took up a third of the block with flooding. We have filled here big time but the road and sand dunes are well higher than the bunk house.

Cheers, Steve.

@Bigpearl

We must almost be neighbors, I’m just a couple of doors away from Natalna.

The Architect/builder built a large 300mm wide storm water channel (probably big enough for a large gas station forecourt) near the house to ‘catch’ the surface water and water from the roof as it’s gutter less, - a new concept to me.

My issue is that the storm water channel which runs from front to back seems to be one of the higher points in the lot, so just to be level at the entrance gate I will need to ramp up at the entrance by a minimum of 400mm. So, I was thinking about sloping some of the lot away from the storm water drain and straight out onto the road. That’s the part that I’m looking for an Engineer to tell me I’m crazy!

The problem with doing that I'm also directing water at a small house which was built too low, so I was thing about putting a wall around it to stop the water.

Cheers

Kevin

Ah near the airport Kevin, we are about an hour north depending on traffic. As said go and chat with the local municipal office and see if they can help.

Good luck.

Cheers, Steve.