"David WE Roberts" wrote in message
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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David WE Roberts wrote:
I don't know if my rain water drainage is to a soakaway.
However......
Having just unblocked a rainwater down pipe at the top where it met the
guttering, and found it full of mud and moss (our North facing roof
seems to be almost a 'green roof' - there is moss growing around nearly
every tile) I was pondering on how much crap had gone down the pipe
before it became blocked.

Which led me to pondering about soak aways in general.

If you keep washing muck down into them they must silt up eventually.
So how do you deal with this?
Should there be a gulley and 'U' trap before the soakaway to catch
rubbish which can then be removed?
Or do you have to plan to dig the garden up every 20 years or so and
clean out the soakaway?


The latter really.

In which case the next question is "How do you find the soakaway?".

Presumably by digging up the pipe run and following it along.

I am now hoping I never have to tackle this particular problem :-(

My MIL's house built in the 30's seems to have recently blocked its soakaway
from the porch.
The plan is to cut into the downpipe and insert a diverter to pipe the
rainwater down the side of the house and into the outside drain where the
kitchen and bathroom grey water pipe outfalls are.

That's the plan anyway.