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Soak Pit

  • 22-05-2007 02:29PM
    #1
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭


    hi

    just wondering what size a soak pit should be ? i.e. length x width x depth ?
    would 1m x 1m do for length and width ? how deep should they be ?

    btw this is on 1.5 acre site in the middle of the country side.

    thanks - laoisfan


Comments

  • #2
    ballystephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭ballystephen


    A metre should be ok but it woudnt hurt to go deeper.
    Good luck
    Steve


  • #3
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭laoisfan


    ballystephen wrote:
    A metre should be ok but it woudnt hurt to go deeper.
    Good luck
    Steve

    yeah, was thinking 1m x 1m x 1m should be sufficient but will see can i go deeper.

    thanks for the reply.


  • #4
    hobie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭hobie


    A wise drainage man once told me to go "Long and narrow" rather than "short and wide" ......

    so I dug my soak pit approx 10 mtrs long ..... 1/2 mtr wide and about a mtr deep .... a perforated pipe runs the whole length, surrounded by broken stone ..... plastic sheeting on top of the stone and a foot of earth on top of that ......


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