Portable holes
Feb. 5th, 2009 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgMr Soggy arrived this morning and proceded to excavate my domicile. Sadly for my Time Team dreams, no archeology of interest was thus revealed. Nice neat trenches though. Well, nothing Roman, Saxon or Iron Age, but plenty of evidence of the Dodgy Age.
This is the trench near my front door, showing the output of two downpipes pouring into the one (now collapsed) brick soakwell. In a blow for the observational method, the fact that this collapsed immediately after installing another drain nearby was apparently a complete co-incidence. That drain was responsible for a completely different and much less dramatic bit of subsidence.
And just to prove that the former owners used whatever materials they had to hand, here are the remains of a soakwell from the opposite corner of the house under more disturbed paving. Looks like they made this one out of retread tyres:
Here's a fresh hole, awaiting its new soakwell:
And here's one of the newBorg soakwells, not yet covered in geofabric. With the added advantage of being made from recycled plastic:
This is the trench near my front door, showing the output of two downpipes pouring into the one (now collapsed) brick soakwell. In a blow for the observational method, the fact that this collapsed immediately after installing another drain nearby was apparently a complete co-incidence. That drain was responsible for a completely different and much less dramatic bit of subsidence.
And just to prove that the former owners used whatever materials they had to hand, here are the remains of a soakwell from the opposite corner of the house under more disturbed paving. Looks like they made this one out of retread tyres:
Here's a fresh hole, awaiting its new soakwell:
And here's one of the new
