Chris Bacon wrote:

Mike Taylor wrote:

"There shouldn't be any "rocks" in your soakaway."
What should be in the soakaway then?


Normally, air.


In "normal" terms a soakaway is a hole in the ground filled with
rubble (Rocks if you want) into which the rainwater pipes go.


That's more of a french drain. If you fill your soakaway with stuff,
there's no holding space for water.


Sometimes nowadays a hole in the ground is lined with a perforated
concrete ring system, then capped and is hollow but this is not usual,
certainly for properties of more than a few years old


They used to be of brick.

Thtas ********. Al a soakaway is is a temmporary chamber to hold water
before it soaks away into the surrounding soil

It can be enything from a custom plastic jobby to a simple 'dry pond'
that only fills up briefly after it rains.. pits full of rubble covered
in soil are traditional, work well, and are still sokaways.