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Jeremy, can you expand on what you did to the intake to minimise noise?

Im going off the "bury it" idea, for exacxtly those resons. Water, ineveitably WILL get in. Shame as i think its the best option from a sound point of view. I think i will do as Jeremey has done. Furtunately for me, im building a retaining wall round the patio so can incorparate a block built structure into it for the compressor. Well, at least thats the current plan!

Whe i wrote this, 3 days! Smells have now gone, so i guess its now starting to work.

Even more excellent Shall be bought this evening. Im considering extending it a second bell in the hall............

Excellent job Im offto buy one!

I too have no idea. What Jeremy says is correct about life span and maintain ability. The inability to maintain stuff without ripping stuff apart in houses is a pet hate......

I’m liking that. How have you dealt with the hole in the wall?

It’s a shared system, 2 houses, both 4 bed, so number of bedrooms plus 2 = 12. At the time the plant was ordered it was 10 or 16. They do a 12 nom

A septic tank kind of smell! my understanding is the soil pipe on the house, which, logically has a clear path from tank to stack was all it needed. That said, it a 16 man unit with only 4 people, so it needs turning down. From the blurb, whilst it trumpets the fact you can turn it down, it doesn’t actually tell you how,

At the moment it’s been running for 3 days and it smells quite a lot. Does a new plant take a while to get established? It was full of water to start with.

Try this: https://www.abbeypynford.co.uk/our-services/housedeck/ They use this in the root protection zone of TPO'd trees.

Lucky you! We are at 6 weeks and still waiting for our boiler chappy to come. And we are 10 mins from Milton Keynes!!

Well mines in all and running. The box is temprarily mounted on a paving slab as ive got to lay a patio etc round it. However, it is quite noisey. Having had the dubious privelege of looking inside it this morning (and more than halving the noise with a towel) i think its fair to say that minimal engineering thought has been applied to this. The compressor sits on rubber feet, but has 2 plasctic upstands each side of it, with a hole in the top of each and a tie wrap strapping it into position, thus bypassing any benefits the rubber feet might have! Standing next to it, you can feel the vibration through the ground!. Plus the lid rattles when its closed. Addtionaly, the rubber output pipe is in hard contact to box, as are the pipes to the tank where they pass through the box.. Upshot is, this lot is destined for the skip.New design required. Im thinking something similar to Jeremys, but buried, and built into an insulated "well" to cut down virbration transmission. And suspensd the compressor on "strings". And rubber mount the pipework.And, and and,................................ In fact i might put 2 compressors in there, so when one fails, i can switch to the other one.

Thanks for the update. Will see how mine goes. its pretty quiet here too and next door is a super light sleeper. We shall see!

Thanks for the info. I understand what you are saying. The front half of the house is 200 years old and im doing similar to you there. Logically i can do the same at the back. Just need a way to soften the visual impact of a big trench! Plants. My wife will be impressed. I like the open space idea, she wants plants everywhere!

Joe, where have you got to with this? Mines just being installed. One suggestion the guys installing it had was to mount the pump on strings, ie suspend it, so its not actually touching anything. As mines only 8 meters from the house, its a concern ive had right fro the start, but figured i will have to adapt/modify etc. Its a beast though..................

You have a decent overhang there too, which will definitely help, but i hope your right. Will be really interesting to see it in a couple of years time. My wall is the gable end, overhang is an inch at best, and west facing, so worst combination possible. The pic below shows just how bad it got, though that laregly as a result of it puddling against the way, but the bricks are so soft it just wicks up the wall.

Exceptional How old is it though. Looks brand spanking new?

Which is exactly my concern. I cant put anything in front of it, as that would look weird.

Sadly, that stuff is exceptional at holding moisture in as well. Having direct experience of it and seen the long term results,we definitely wont be doing that.

Ahhh, i see. There is EPS behind that trim. My issues is the bricks on my house are like a sponge. They just soak up water, hence my concern.

Thanks Lizzie. But as per my post above, does the bottom of your cladding not get soaked in heavy rain from the water splashing back onto it? Looks very nice though

Indeed i can,or gravel as Jeremy suggests. Both make good sense. My main concern was splash soaking the wall? I guess with a widestip of gravel that this is less likely than hard paving. But no one has this problem? Maybe im over thinking it?

Well, chaps and chapesses, been a while since i was here, but i have a question, The back wall of my house way clearly very wet upto the DPC. Investigation releaved that the patio had been laid with a slight fall to the wall, and being natural stone was layed on a bed of motar or similar. Nowhere for the water go, so end result unsurprising really. The patio was one brick below the DPC. Having dug all this out, its starting to dry out nicely. However, once the sewage treatment plant and rain water soakaway are installed, i need to re-instate a patio. Obviously it needs to slope away from the house, but that really raises it up a touch. Dont reallywant to lower the whole patio, its big! Traditionally, the paving was supposed to be "2 bricks below the DPC". Clearly the requirement for level thresholds means that cant be achieved Ive been looking at the various detail drawings for the thresholds, but whatever system is used, does the wall ABOVE the DPC not get wet? I thought the 2 brick idea was to counteract rain bouncing / splashing the wall? Plenty of you guys must have level thresholds, so is you wall OK? The wall inquestion is west facing, so gets all the weather. Thoughts?

Because a private BCO is more likely to be helpful and pragmatic, unlike council types whose only mission in life is often (not always) to make your life as difficult as possible. Obviously if you do get a sensible council BCO, then its all good. On my garage, council wanted 3m deep trench foundations. Private BCO was happy with a raft.