Recommendations Please: Building a tank

DagneyTaggart

Will soon seek builders to quote for fitting in a slurry tank. Have you built a tank in recent years and have you any recommendations on who to call or equally who to avoid? I'm based in the north east so please keep them to that area if possible.

whelan1

is it a slatted tank or an over ground tank you are doing ?

DagneyTaggart

It's an existing shed with largely solid floor. The job would involve digging out the shed and putting in a slatted tank. Know of anyone you'd recommend Whelan?

Bitten & Hisses

The most important thing IMO is that you get a good, pragmatic engineer to look at the job upfront. Converting a shed is a good use of existing resources, but it's a job that would make me nervous. That said, I excavated a tank within 8 feet of the external wall of an existing shed in 2006 and the builder knew exactly what he was doing as regards stabilising that wall.

pakalasa

How about putting slats over the existing floor (if it's good enough) and putting scrapers underneath.

Might be a cheap option, especially if you have existing spare storage.

DagneyTaggart

That crossed my mind too Pakalasa and having given it more thought it seems like a realistive option. Have you an idea on what it would cost for a say 25 meter scraper? And again feel free to recommend someone if you've had a good experience.