22/09/2026
💧 ANOTHER DRAINAGE PROJECT – A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHALLENGE!
While our little Kubota is busy tackling the hillside project, another Phuket Property Solutions team has been hard at work on a residential property with a very different water problem.
This property has been suffering from rising damp, with moisture affecting the lower walls and causing paint to flake and deteriorate.
Simply repainting the walls won’t solve the underlying problem. We need to address where the water is coming from and give it somewhere else to go.
Our solution is a combination of waterproofing and sub-surface drainage.
We’ve waterproofed the exposed structural beams to help prevent moisture being absorbed and travelling up into the block walls. Alongside the building, we’re installing a geotextile-wrapped sub-drain system, surrounded by drainage aggregate, to collect excess ground water and direct it into the property’s perimeter drainage system.
The aim is to reduce the moisture building up around the foundations and lower walls, rather than repeatedly treating the visible symptoms.
And unlike our larger hillside project, there’s no room for machinery here!
Every trench has been excavated by hand, and every section of drainage installed by hand, carefully working around the building, existing pipework and tight residential spaces.
Different property. Different problem. Different approach.
That’s what we do at Phuket Property Solutions: understand the problem, adapt to the site and find a practical, lasting solution.