Dear Paving expert, great site! hope the craik is still mighty. Used to be in the plant game in around london a good few years ago, now kennels. diggers to dogs!
Anyway got a largish house 3 bathrooms, constant washing machine going. all goes into a combined system into a septic tank (a lot of roof water flushing through the tank), which eventually outfalls into a soakaway. Have already resited soakaway twice in 8 years and its saturated again. Went down about 15-20 feet last time (3cx with extra dig!) must admit put everything in it; bricks, type 1, sand, everything I had laying around. Do you think i should put a proper land drain onto the outlet and do away with soakaways altogether. Or should I get a big tank in and get it sucked out every six months. I think the ground has got a fair bit of clay in it from memory.
Nightmare - Soggy soakaway
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Tony McC
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You could try a proper soakaway - a hole filled with rubble, old bricks, sand and broken flags is not a good soakaway. Have a look at the Attenuation Cells (Storm Crates) described in the SUDS section of the main website.
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