SOAKAWAY FOR RAIN ! anyone got any words of wisdom?

[willow]

I love this site you never know what you are going to read about next :lol: :wink:

All good reading -cheers- :smile:

 

[zippy656]

I love this site you never know what you are going to read about next :lol: :wink:

All good reading -cheers- :smile:

i love it too.. turkey farming to building.. oh what fun!!!

the PEOPLE make it i think..

all good CLEAN fun.. well some muck, be we are adults mostly..

mud never hurt any one!


Zippy

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

mud never hurt any one!

I will remember that when I am diggin up loads of it to make the soak away :lol:

 

[fusbblood]

a word of caution
a builder had planned a soak away as a simple solution to what was then a problem. When the problem persisted we found from local authority searches that soak aways were not allowed in our area as the soil was not suitable. Do you have main storm drains in your area or does anybody else use a saokaway.

 

[zippy656]

mud never hurt any one!

I will remember that when I am diggin up loads of it to make the soak away :lol:

its FUN to play in...

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

a word of caution
a builder had planned a soak away as a simple solution to what was then a problem. When the problem persisted we found from local authority searches that soak aways were not allowed in our area as the soil was not suitable. Do you have main storm drains in your area or does anybody else use a saokaway.

Interestingly soakaways are the prefered option for buliding regs here is a quote from a local authority website on the subject:

For soakaways serving larger areas reference should be made to BS EN 752-4, or BRE Digest 365 Soakaway design. BRE Digest 365 is the most commonly used document.

The Building Regulations dictate an order of priority for the selection of surface water from buildings and these are:

1, an adequate soakaway or some other adequate filtration system, or where that is not reasonably practical,
2, a watercourse, or where that is not reasonably practical,
an appropriate sewer
3, A soakaway must always be the first choice but must not be used:

within 5m of a building or road, 2.5m of a boundary or in an area of unstable land in ground where the water table reaches the bottom of the soakaway at any time of the year. near any drainage field, drainage mound or other soakaway so that the overall soakage capacity of the ground is exceeded and the effectiveness of any drainage field impaired; where the presence of any contamination in the runoff could result in pollution of groundwater source or resource.

 

[willow]

Hav'nt you dug your soak away yet Plank

Stop talking about it and get on with it :lol: :lol: men :roll: -boxing2-


Merry christmas do you want a coffee and mince pie and cream to get you going :smile:

 

[zippy656]

Hav'nt you dug your soak away yet Plank

Stop talking about it and get on with it :lol: :lol: men :roll: -boxing2-


Merry christmas do you want a coffee and mince pie and cream to get you going :smile:

he needs you to pop over and get him started..
just show him whats needed for 4 hours, till he gets the idea...

 

[willow]

I want to make friends not lose them Zippy :lol: :lol: :lol:

Never tell a man how to do somthing he'll just sulk :smile:
or not do it at all :lol: :lol:

 

[zippy656]

I want to make friends not lose them Zippy :lol: :lol: :lol:

Never tell a man how to do somthing he'll just sulk :smile:
or not do it at all :lol: :lol:

my mum would tel us" you cant do that" and just to prove her WRONE wed do it...


ive now worked out what she was doing... :evil: :evil: :evil:


if you SHOWED him for 4 hours i think hed have it all dug then, without getting His hands dirty...


Zippy

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

well, thanks for the encouragment, I was waiting for willow to show up and help for most of the day, I had mince pies and drinks ready and stuff, and of course a nice shinny shovel, but then i ended up diggin it on my own :-(

It is done now and a nice layer of top soil and the original turf put back on top so I will just have to see how it goes.

Thnaks again!

 

[willow]

well, thanks for the encouragment, I was waiting for willow to show up and help for most of the day, I had mince pies and drinks ready and stuff, and of course a nice shinny shovel, but then i ended up diggin it on my own :-(

It is done now and a nice layer of top soil and the original turf put back on top so I will just have to see how it goes.

Thnaks again!

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Sorry I missed all the fun been a busy here too :thumbs