Hi,
I finally found a house I want to make an offer on subject to builder’s report etc. I’m ordering the property file on Monday. However, around the south side main entrance door alcove the weep holes in the brick cladding are at slate tile (ground) level and on either side of the alcove the weep holes are at limestone chip level. See pictures. Trouble is the south side is paved driveway and heads up slope towards the road. Nearer the house it’s fairly level. But you can’t just dig out some dirt and re-slope the area and future me really doesn’t want to be digging up the driveway. What’s the right way to get the clearance below the weep holes with minimum disruption? From what we can tell there’s no issue with water in the house (late 90s build) but if we proceed to a builder’s report we’ll be pointing this out and getting moisture readings checked.

i’m a little less concerned with the limestone chip, I could probably just remove some chip?  Hopefully from the property file I’ll find out if there’s some drainage method under the lime chip. I’m not sure where that downpipe drains to. But the weep holes around the door are a worry. The tiling there looks possibly homeowner DIY add on and somebody has run a bead of caulk along the bottom, of the bricks where it meets the tiles, blocking the bottom of the weep holes. I wonder if originally the slate tile was lime chip.

I asked and water doesn’t pond at the door. I’m hoping for a good rain this week so I can go look. There’s a drain on the south west (left corner of first pic and not visible in photo) that the driveway runoff diverts into due to some slope in that direction. The drain is fairly recent, installed when a neighbour paved a large area and caused more water to come down ‘my’ driveway so it’s not related.

TLDR; how do I fix the weep holes issue at the house entrance without destroying a section of the driveway?

pictures 1.south side down pipe to main entrance door alcove . 2.weep holes atop slate tile at door alcove example 3. Weep holes atop lime chip example 4. Shot of entrance alcove