Surface water soakaway question

[Welderpaul]

Does anyone know what the vertical pipe is for in this image? NMP but I think is the set up we have
under our garden.
Stuck a tape measure down the pipe and it is 1.8m deep and dry. Odd because i've spent most of the afternoon jetwashing the drive and trying to clear a blockage from the Aco infront of the garage. If the Aco leads to this i would have expected a load of water to be in the crates.

 

[WorkshopChris]

Odd because i've spent most of the afternoon jetwashing the drive and trying to clear a blockage from the Aco infront of the garage. If the Aco leads to this i would have expected a load of water to be in the crates.

That goes some way to confirm my suspicions that around 90% of Aco is just fitted to keep planners happy and is never connected to anything anyway, at least around this way.

 

[Welderpaul]

That goes some way to confirm my suspicions that around 90% of Aco is just fitted to keep planners happy and is never connected to anything anyway, at least around this way.

The Aco is fitted to stop water running down the drive and into my garage. It is connected to something, but is blocked to a degree. Nothing I can rod without digging out the last Aco in the run and the trap that it is piped into.

 

[MCKDAVID]

Some kind of breather maybe?

 

[addjunkie]

Have you tried a sani snake, they wiggle round corners quite well.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-un...VAbDtCh0vfQEzEAQYAyABEgKR6PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

How quickly the water disapears is down to ground conditions below the tescos box. Could be yours has a route else where.

When running water, chalk the end of your tape see if there is any water there.

 

[Tom O]

Can they get a air lock in them? Going by the height of it I’d say it’s a breather too.

 

[God mode restorations]

Soak away systems don't have or need a breather. I done loads of them . The white pipe in the picture will be the water inlet. When it's been filled with stone and wrapped the pipe will be cut down to take a collar and pipe from the acco.

 

[dobbslc]

@spencer 427 I might have to tap you up for some info one day as I have a new soakaway to install before the winter .

 

[God mode restorations]

@spencer 427 I might have to tap you up for some info one day as I have a new soakaway to install before the winter .

The best way to do it in my opinion is a catch pit with a pump. This was my last job I did. It was a 2.5

mtr dig. Concrete rings. Inlet comes from the back that takes water from acco drains as well as the garage roof. There is also a French drain. Its pumped back out to an existing gully at the front of the garage.

 

[dobbslc]

No existing drains to connect to here, and we're on clay......
There's an old soakaway that's blocked and now too close to the house extension anyway.

 

[God mode restorations]

No existing drains to connect to here, and we're on clay......
There's an old soakaway that's blocked and now too close to the house extension anyway.

The catch pit I done was also on clay..you can put soakaway in clay ground they just need to be deeper ..

 

[God mode restorations]

No existing drains to connect to here, and we're on clay......
There's an old soakaway that's blocked and now too close to the house extension anyway.

Do you have a waste gully that takes the kitchen sink waste.

 

[dobbslc]

Do you have a waste gully that takes the kitchen sink waste.

I do but it's on the other side of the house! Building control are involved so I doubt I'll get away without putting in a new soakaway

 

[Welderpaul]

Have you tried a sani snake, they wiggle round corners quite well.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-un...VAbDtCh0vfQEzEAQYAyABEgKR6PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

How quickly the water disapears is down to ground conditions below the tescos box. Could be yours has a route else where.

When running water, chalk the end of your tape see if there is any water there.

Tescos box?...

 

[Welderpaul]

Soak away systems don't have or need a breather. I done loads of them . The white pipe in the picture will be the water inlet. When it's been filled with stone and wrapped the pipe will be cut down to take a collar and pipe from the acco.

The vertical pipe in the picture has a little inspection cover (toby) on it in our case - I don't think water gets into it from this pipe.

 

[8ob]

The vertical pipe in the picture has a little inspection cover (toby) on it in our case - I don't think water gets into it from this pipe.

Never seen a pipe like that sticking out of soakaway crates before

Bob

 

[DAPPH]

Just to make you happier, in 2000 , when I had our conservatory done for the 1989 built bungalow the foundation was dug to 1200 deep as it was on sand and gravel land , in one corner of the foundation trench was a light brown /orange soil pipe
seeing as it ran about 18 inches parallel with our bungalow & picked up on the other wall side foundation trench adjacent to the bungalow I assumed it would be the roof water route from next door or a route from our downpipe running through next doors garden.

In a burst of sheer genius I decided to pop a hose pipe down the gutter end of the down pipe at the corner of our bungalow , turn on the hosepipe and prove the route for I was looking to put a garage roof drainage in a few months later.

I could hear the water running , went & lifted access hole cover number 1 ..no water , 2 no … water , three …. no water , 4 no water . Well that took care of all the manholes on our property
went to the adjacent semi detached bungalow & asked if I could lift the lids to see if our rain water ran through their the manholes . All lids lifted , nothing found . Went to the next pair of bungalows did the same nothing found .
To this day I don't know where they ran to , there was no big soak away reservoir on the plans . Both the other bungalows rain water ran through manholes on their properties to the street rain water system .


Don't think there was a sink hole under the bungalow ...but you never know .



Could it be that your soak away has never been connected , try filling the thing with a hose pipe unless of course you are on a water meter.

 

[Screwdriver]

Just a heads up but if you have a soakaway and your water is metered, you can apply for a discount to the water supplier. They charge a proportion of the fixed fee for waste water disposal.

My guess is the pipe is intended for use to plumb into a drain or perhaps a pump for any excess. And no, that's not a good idea!