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Sites we have tested recently, and the occasional bit of guidance on soakaways, septic tanks and the drainage conditions that come attached to planning permission.
The short answer, in England, is at least 5 m. Approved Document H of the Building Regulations says soakaways and other infiltration devices should not be built within 5 m of a building or road. A drainage field for a…
It is a fair question. A percolation test is, at heart, a hole in the ground filled with water and timed as it drains. So why pay someone to do it? The short answer is that you can dig a…
If your property isn’t connected to a mains sewer, your septic tank or treatment plant is covered by the Environment Agency’s general binding rules. Most people only discover them when they sell a house, extend one, or apply for planning…
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 surrounding soil…
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…
The short answer: there’s no single price, because no two sites need the same work. The cost of a percolation test depends mainly on: Below is how each one affects the price, so you can judge whether a quote is…
The site. A site off Dilmore Lane in Fernhill Heath, on the northern edge of Worcester. The planning permission needed evidence that surface water could go to ground before a soakaway design would be accepted. What we did. We dug…
The site. Land at The Elm Tree Inn in Staveley, near Chesterfield, where a planning application needed soakaway testing before the surface water drainage could be designed. What we did. Trial pits were excavated and tested to BRE 365, with…
Percolationtests.co.uk successfully carried out Surface Water percolation tests inline with BRE365 & BS6297 supporting our clients planning application. Percolation tests must be carried out prior to creating a drainage strategy to confirm that Soakaways are/are not a viable option to…
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