Plain-English guides to percolation testing, soakaways and site drainage.
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Plain-English answers to the questions we get asked most often - what the tests are for, when you need one, what drives the cost, and what happens when the ground will not take water.
People use four or five different names for what is often the same job, and one genuine distinction gets lost in the middle of it. Here is the plain version. The ones that mean the same thing Porosity test, percolation…
A soakaway is a hole in the ground, filled with something that holds water in the gaps — crates, or clean stone — that takes rainwater from a roof or a hard surface and lets it soak away into the…
Short answer: if you are putting water into the ground rather than into a sewer, somebody is going to want to know how fast the ground takes it. Here is how to tell whether that applies to you. You almost…
It is the first question almost everybody asks, and the honest answer is that it depends on the site. That is not a dodge — below is exactly what it depends on, so you can judge whether a quote you…
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