INSTALLING A SOAKAWAY IN 3 HOURS - Almost went to plan! 😬
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- The final part of the cabin plumbing was to connect the sewerage treatment plant to a soakaway. We had the option to discharge to watercourse however the drains are not nearby so a simple soakaway was the answer.
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I used to work for a company that made those crates. It's surprising how many we sold. Lots of customers would just have 10, like yourself, which really annoyed us as they came in pallets of 12. During a yard extension of the company I worked for, we put 4,000 of them under the yard but not as infiltration. You could use them as infiltration, or you could use them as storage. So we had all the drains from the yard going to the cells, then just a 6 inch drain out. So the exit flow was regulated. Since leaving there, I buried 12 in the garden of my old house to save rainwater to use on the garden.
Just realised that was ‘temp’ soakaway for the treatment plant?! We are installing a treatment plant now and no installer will put crates in for treatment plant! Despite a few saying you can on YT, it’s a bit of a mine field as the building regs don’t consider the output discharge from a treatment plant any different to a direct septic tank, when of course it is very different. Building control are fairly flexible as long as you can prove the design works to the manufactures instructions for the site chosen and distances etc. Of course in you case it’s a farm the rules are slightly different, with certain exemptions. Super little video thank you!
I think one reason why a drainage field is preferred over crates is that the STP's are not fail proof, I read if you have a five person one for example you have got to have five people using it every day or the microbes can get out of balance, powercuts can affect them too. So perhaps the thinking is a belt and braces approach regarding crates and STP's.
We had to build a huge one of those [about 50 feet x 20 feet x six feet deep] at a site in Buckhurst Hill, not as a soak away but the council insisted on it as rainwater backup, then it was pumped up to the storm drain in the road. We had to put 3 feet of fill over the top [ which made it a 9 foot deep hole and as it was London Clay, several loads of sand to surround it] we were also told that no heavy vehicles were to go over it, which we ignored as the houses were only half built and we needed lorry loads of bricks, blocks, roof trusses etc.
You did a better job than the builders that did our soak away in the back garden.
Dig a massive hole and fill it full of building rubble add a foot of soil and turf the top! 😂
Been there, and in the summer a big square of brown turf appears.
The curious dog 😊
Love your work 👍
Nice job and good to see it done fast - there’s hope for us! Any reason why you didn’t line the base with pea shingle?
Great content
Use those whenever i have a soak well to fit here in Australia. They can take a lot of weight. 👍👍
I hope you have a bespoke environmental permit from the EA that consents the treatment plant to soakaway discharge. Discharging in such a way goes against the general binding rules, hence the need for a permit.
Went to plan, okay no need to boast! I wish for those days 😂
I dunno about your resources. But a good man Eric barker landscapes is his name on TH-cam. He used to fabricate large 10 ft steel rakes that he would attach to his digger bucket. And would be a god send when levelling out large areas. Like your gateway. Could pay dividends on your lovely farm in the long run. Worth a look.
Love to see more about the specs of the treatment system it looks interesting as it’s above ground? We are in a flood area so we are looking to put a treatment system behind a 1.2m high wall topped with soil, gravel and plants? Can you tell us the model and make of the system you used? 👍
No idea what they used but Portapurra is an above ground ststem I have seen.
Crazy how much weight those crates can take! I was wondering what they were rated to when you were fitting them.
Slightly unrelated question. I am about to embark on a self build project and really want to do the groundwork myself. How difficult is using and excavator?
It’s easy. Rent one for a week ask the delivery guy for quick demo. If you don’t get hang of it then rent digger and driver next time. Plenty of people do that
Appreciate this as I have a similar gateway to an orchard that will need this treatment in the spring and was a bit concerned about traffic weight, but feel reassured it will be fine from your post. By the way how did you 'spread' the soil from the crate space ?
when we did ours we put it on and surrounded it with a good 2 inches of pea shingle
Yeah as I said, pea shingle ideal but sand did the job just fine. As long as there is nothing to damage or puncture the membrane.
Agree,crates on 100 mm pea shingle Wrap crates in non woven geo tec minimum 100 pea shingle all around side of crates 100 mm on top Then back fill to ground level is the way I’d do it
Tim you say this is temporary but in other videos you say you will be living here for three years. Why have you gone with these drainage crates and not a drainage field of pipes in a herringbone formation???
Will we get to see the waste water treatment plant installation?
Ah, I thought I’d missed a video appears not so
Tbh we didn’t film much as it was pretty much plug and play and also not really a conventional setup being that it’s an above ground version. Will share at some point though. 👍
@@TheRestorationCouple I take it the output is considered at least what in Canada we’d call Secondary Treated effluent?
@@vaalrus by the time it’s gone through the 4 chambers it’s supposedly clean enough to discharge in to watercourse so yes it’s just the treated liquid.
@@TheRestorationCouple Interesting. ‘Cross the puddle, there’s a disinclination for private wastewater systems to discharge near, or into a water course, preferring either surface discharge (in a remote from dwellings) for evaporation, or some sort of near-surface in-soil dispersal and/or treatment, the size depending on the volume and level of primary or secondary treatment. I’ve lost count of the the engineered multi-layer treatment mounds I’ve installed in rural Canada.
I’ve only seen those chambers you installed used for storage of stormwater.
gettn to be a bit of a whizz kid wae the digger.. Ah take it Jo will get a wee shot later.?😂 You and yer neebs made it look easy. If it is then a might have a go myself. later 👍
Is a soak-away some kind of septic drainage field?
I always base on 100mm sharp sand then make it up out the hole cable tie it for extra strength wrap it tape it tie rope around it lift in hole machine jobs a gooden
Did you fill them with gravel or did I just miss that?
No they remain empty.
@@TheRestorationCouple shouldn't it be filled with some rocks ?
Wish you had parked that dumper away from the side of trench
9m - you have a drain that goes to a watercourse? You do realise that you need a permit to do that and if you don't have a permit, you're breaking the law.
Breaking the law 😅
You must be a blast at parties.
Call da Police. Get him arrested.
Soakaway crates vs proper designed percolation area ??
Honestly thought soak away crates were only for simple roof run off water / road water and the likes
Effluent water is not clean coming out off the toilet septic tank. Full of nastiness
I would have put that toilet soakaway far away from the house
or (different countries different rules) just done the right percolation designed area for septic
your videos will be short and shorter