Nice job lot of work the price makes me feel better about my system I'm your neighbor across the mountains I will send you pictures of our project if I ever figure out how
Thank you for doing this video series, sure helped me, as I need to do the same thing. Ugh it sucks using a bucket for 2 years, but getting closer. God bless
Interesting. I had an infiltrator system installed at parent's house 6 yrs ago in Mass. It had gravity flow to distribution box then gravity flow to 4 rows of infiltrators. But there were no perforated/drilled pvc pipes inside the infiltrators. I thought one of the advantages of infiltrator system over traditional perforated pipe/gravel field is that there are no perforated pipes so there is no chance the pipe holes might get plugged up and the leach field fail. I assume you needed the drilled pipes because the flow/pressure from the pump would disturb/move the sand at the inflow side of first arch of each row and prevent even distribution of effluent in each row. Is this correct?
I believe so. It’s a high head pump (required by engineering) pushing effluent at around 2 feet of head, so I think the pressure and flow would erode the sand too heavily if not for the perforations to distribute the water evenly. The perforations also point up so it sprays into the underside of the infiltrator and then drips onto the sand from there. Still a possibility of clogging but with the cleanouts on all 4 pipes hopefully it would be easy to resolve!
Nice job lot of work the price makes me feel better about my system I'm your neighbor across the mountains I will send you pictures of our project if I ever figure out how
Thank you for doing this video series, sure helped me, as I need to do the same thing. Ugh it sucks using a bucket for 2 years, but getting closer. God bless
Great video thanks a lot of work , saved 1/2 so worth it ,.
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Interesting. I had an infiltrator system installed at parent's house 6 yrs ago in Mass. It had gravity flow to distribution box then gravity flow to 4 rows of infiltrators. But there were no perforated/drilled pvc pipes inside the infiltrators. I thought one of the advantages of infiltrator system over traditional perforated pipe/gravel field is that there are no perforated pipes so there is no chance the pipe holes might get plugged up and the leach field fail. I assume you needed the drilled pipes because the flow/pressure from the pump would disturb/move the sand at the inflow side of first arch of each row and prevent even distribution of effluent in each row. Is this correct?
I believe so. It’s a high head pump (required by engineering) pushing effluent at around 2 feet of head, so I think the pressure and flow would erode the sand too heavily if not for the perforations to distribute the water evenly. The perforations also point up so it sprays into the underside of the infiltrator and then drips onto the sand from there. Still a possibility of clogging but with the cleanouts on all 4 pipes hopefully it would be easy to resolve!