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Anyone every dug their own percolation area

  • 30-07-2025 11:56AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,933 ✭✭✭✭


    10m square and would need to dig out the 775mm and then put down 250/300 of stone for the pipes, lay the pipes and then cover with stone, layer of textile and 300 mm top soil.

    Digging out should be easy enough.

    Digger plus dumper.

    Getting the stone in without driving the digger over it could be tricky

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,497 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Have you dug a test hole to check water levels and confirm that the water will actually percolate!?

    Our test hole ended up as a swimming pool that never drained due to high water table and clay soil in the area, 4M down and was constant 2M of standing water :(



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,933 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Thanks, all the testing is done, rock at 2.1 so its a pumped polishing system, less digging

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